Legal Opinion
Atlantic Recording Corp. v. Howell
District Court, D. Arizona
Decided April 29, 2008No. CV-06-02076-PHX-NVWPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
NEIL V. WAKE, District Judge.
The court has before it Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment. (Doc. # 30.) The Motion will be denied for the reasons set forth below.
I. Background
This is a suit for copyright infringement brought by seven major recording companies against Defendant Jeffery Howell (“Howell”) and his wife, who proceed pro se. At 1:52 a.m. Eastern Time on January 30, 2006, the recording companies’ private investigator, MediaSentry, logged on to the KaZaA file-sharing system and detected a user account with over 4,000 files available for download. (Doc. # 31, Ex. 11 ¶ 9.)…
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