Supreme Court Says Internet Service Provider Isn't Liable for Bootlegged Music Downloads
DannyB writes:
From CNN:
Supreme Court says internet service provider isn't liable for bootlegged music downloads
In a major loss for the nation's music industry, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a major internet service provider is not liable for copyright infringement because it failed to kick known copyright violators off its network.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion for a unanimous court.
The nation's largest record labels want to hold internet providers liable for copyright infringement because they declined to cut off online access to users they know are downloading bootlegged music.
[....] "Under our precedents, a company is not liable as a copyright infringer for merely providing a service to the general public with knowledge that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights," Thomas wrote.
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This is a sad shocking blow to the poor sad music industry. I shed so many tears for them. (Okay, not really)
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