Legal Opinion
Verizon Internet Services, Inc. v. Verizon Internet Services
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided January 21, 2003No. 1:02-cr-00323PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BATES, District Judge.
The Recording Industry Association of America (“RIAA”) 1 has moved to enforce a subpoena served on Verizon Internet Services (“Verizon”) under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA” or “Act”), 17 U.S.C. § 512. On behalf of copyright owners, RIAA seeks the identity of an anonymous user of Verizon’s service who is alleged to have infringed copyrights with respect to more than 600 songs offered for downloading over the Internet in a single day. The copyright owners (and thus RIAA) can discern the Internet Protocol address, but not the…
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