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JackSpratts · 21-01-03, 04:42 PM

Let’s face, the courts have been very, very good to the media conglomerates of late, what with last weeks legal victories in Texas and the Supreme court. Today brings news of another out of the park home run for the boys of team RIAA. It’s official, Verizon has to cough up the name of the customer who’s allegedly uploading all those hundreds and hundreds of files to Kazaa. Assuming it’s upheld on appeal, the RIAA can now issue blanket subpoenas to hundreds – or thousands of file sharing users with little more effort than writing one letter to an ISP.

Here's the story -
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-981449.html

- js.

21-01-03, 04:42 PM	#1
JackSpratts Join Date: May 2001 Location: New England Posts: 10,018	RIAA On A Roll Let’s face, the courts have been very, very good to the media conglomerates of late, what with last weeks legal victories in Texas and the Supreme court. Today brings news of another out of the park home run for the boys of team RIAA. It’s official, Verizon has to cough up the name of the customer who’s allegedly uploading all those hundreds and hundreds of files to Kazaa. Assuming it’s upheld on appeal, the RIAA can now issue blanket subpoenas to hundreds – or thousands of file sharing users with little more effort than writing one letter to an ISP. Here's the story - http://news.com.com/2100-1023-981449.html - js.