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Charter Cable Sues To Quash RIAA Subpoenas

Posted by timothy on from the quashing-baby-quashing dept.

mattOzan writes "Charter Communications, the third largest cable provider in the United States, has filed a motion in St. Louis, Missouri, to block the RIAA's requests for the identities of about 150 Charter customers in the St. Louis area. In the over 1100 subpoenas that have been issued so far, Charter claims they are the only major ISP that has not provided the RIAA with 'a single datum of information.'"

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  1. Re:Subpoenas? by geoffspear · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anyone can subpoena anyone else to get information to use in a lawsuit. The DMCA makes it easier to do so in the case of alleged copyright infringement, but the right to issue subpoenas is avaialble to any person or corporation.

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  2. statistics of riaa by potpie · · Score: 5, Informative

    the riaa claims to have lost millions of dollars. The yearend reports can be found here in pdf format:
    http://www.riaa.com/news/marketingdata/yearend.asp

    note that the sale of cd's has dropped less than 10%, and that the sale of DVD video and DVD audio has risen far more. The riaa doesn't seem to talk about that much, does it?

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