Pacific Bell Internet Services late Wed. challenged RIAA’s attemp...
Pacific Bell Internet Services late Wed. challenged RIAA’s attempt to force disclosure of the identity of alleged online file swappers. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. Dist. Court, San Francisco, Pac Bell requested a declaration that Digital Millennium Copyright…
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Act (DMCA) subpoenas served on it by RIAA were overly broad and should have been issued by a Cal., not D.C., court, AP reported. The suit raises constitutional issues as well, the AP said. “This is old news,” an RIAA spokeswoman said. Pac Bell is simply recycling many of the same arguments raised (by Verizon Internet Services) and shot down twice by a D.C. federal court, the spokeswoman said. RIAA contacted SBC (which purchased Pac Bell) to discuss the matter but was “rebuked,” she said. The “procedural gambit” won’t change the underlying fact that when people engage in copyright infringement online, they're not anonymous and ISPs must reveal who they are, the spokeswoman said.