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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:07:11 -0400
From: charles brownstein <cbrownst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: sbc does good thing
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To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
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SBC Won't Name Names in File-Sharing Cases
By SETH SCHIESEL
s the recording industry pursues its lawsuits against those it says are
digital music pirates, SBC Communications has emerged as the only major
Internet service provider that has so far refused to identify computer
users whom the industry suspects of copyright infringement.
Since early July, major high-speed Internet providers - including
BellSouth ,Comcast ,EarthLink , Time Warner Cable and Verizon - have
complied with more than 1,000 subpoenas from the record industry's
lobbying arm, the Recording Industry Association of America, to turn over
the names of their customers who are otherwise known only by the murky
screen names and numeric Internet Protocol addresses used in cyberspace.
SBC, the No. 2 regional phone company and a major local telecommunications
service provider in the Midwest and West, has received about 300 such
subpoenas and has refused to answer any o