Legal Opinion
Recording Industry Ass'n of America v. Verizon Internet Services
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 24, 2003No. 1:03-cr-00040PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BATES, District Judge.
Before the Court is the motion of Verizon Internet Services (“Verizon”) to quash the February 4, 2003 subpoena served on it by the Recording Industry Association of America (“RIAA”) pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. § 512. On behalf of copyright owners, RIAA seeks the identity of an anonymous user of the conduit functions of Verizon’s Internet service who is alleged to have infringed copyrights by offering hundreds of songs for downloading over the Internet. 1 In an earlier action, this Court rejected Verizon’s…
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