The Recording Industry Association of America is pressing a federal court to ignore cable Internet provider Charter Communications’ attempt to keep private the names of 93 subscribers who allegedly traded songs online illegally. On Friday, the trade organization filed a court memorandum opposing Charter’s “motion to quash” a subpoena request for the names. The RIAA charges that Charter is unlawfully withholding the identities of its high-speed Internet subscribers who, it says, disseminated more than 100,000 copyrighted songs in peer-to-peer communities like Kazaa without the permission of rights holders.
Among other arguments, the RIAA is denying claims by Charter that it has not filed proper documentation to receive the detailed information on alleged infringers, including their names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. “Charter…has the IP addresses of the 93 infringers, a subpoena validly issued…a declaration complying with all of the (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) requirements, and notices listing copyrighted works illegally disseminated by each infringer,” the filing says. “Charter claims instead that the DMCA requires RIAA to fill out 93 different subpoena forms that will differ only as to the IP address (for each infringer)…Charter’s goal is transparent–to increase the paperwork burden on copyright holders.”
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