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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedLegal setback in RIAA's hunt for file-sharers: in victory for ISPs, judge's OK needed before filing suit.(a federal appeals court nixes music labels' methods of tracking down identities of online music file-swappers)
Video Business, December, 2003 by Crabtree, Susan
WASHINGTON -- Dealing a serious blow to the recording industry's controversial anti-piracy campaign, a federal appeals court last week nixed music labels' methods of tracking down identities of online music file-swappers. The ruling, from a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, overturned a lower court's decision to force Internet service providers to reveal the identity of subscribers accused of illegally downloading music from the Web.
The ruling is a blow not only to the record labels but to movie and videogame companies as well, which are increasingly being victimized by peer-to-peer file swapping. The Motion Picture Association of America filed a friend of the court brief in the case on behalf of...
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