Supreme Court Denies RIAA’s Cert. Petition: DMCA not a fishing license
The Supreme Court today denied cert. to the RIAA in RIAA v. Verizon, leaving the D.C. Circuit’s opinion as law. Good. Bad as much of the DMCA is, it was never meant to give the RIAA blank fishing licenses to issue subpoenas for Internet users’ identities. As we’ve been establishing in this case and in subsequent “Doe” suits, it takes more than a bare allegation of copyright infringement to overcome Internet users’ privacy and First Amendment rights.
Bravo. Good work!
Comment by Marcia — November 16, 2004 @ 10:37 am