Legal Opinion
Sony Music Entertainment Inc. v. Does 1-40
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 26, 2004No. 04 CIV. 473(DC)PublishedCited by 1,403 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHIN, District Judge.
In this case, plaintiffs — seventeen record companies — sued forty unidentified “Doe” defendants for copyright infringement, alleging that defendants illegally downloaded and distributed plaintiffs’ copyrighted or exclusively licensed songs from the Internet, using a “peer to peer” file copying network. Plaintiffs served a subpoena on non-party Internet service provider Ca-blevision Systems Corporation (“Cablevision”), seeking to obtain defendants’ identities. Four defendants move to quash the subpoena.
The motions present two First Amendment issues. First, is a…
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