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| DATE | 2025-12-02 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] The death of the internet is finally making some
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https://www.npr.org/2025/12/01/nx-s1-5626213/supreme-court-music-industry-internet-providers
This might well be the most important Supreme Court case in your
lifetime. It is by FAR the greatest threat to Free Speech in Liberal
Democracies ever...
Supreme Court weighs copyright fight between music industry and internet
providers
December 1, 20255:00 AM ET
By
Alyssa Kapasi
The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court on Monday hears a billion-dollar case about whether
internet providers can be liable for their users' committing copyright
violations using its services.
The legal battle pits the music entertainment industry against Cox
Communications, which provides internet to over 6 million residences and
business.
A coalition of music labels, which represent artists such as Sabrina
Carpenter, Givēon, and Doechii, sued Cox alleging that company should be
responsible for the copyright violations of internet users that Cox had
been warned were serial copyright abusers.
The coalition argues Cox was sent numerous notices of specific IP
addresses repeatedly violating music copyrights and that Cox's failure
to terminate those IP addresses from internet access means that Cox
should face the music.
In its briefs, the coalition argued many of Cox's anti-infringement
measurements seem superficial and the company willingly overlooked
violations.
The coalition points out that Cox had a 13-strike policy for potentially
terminating infringing customers, under which Cox acted against a
customer based on how many complaints it received about a particular
user. The Cox manager who oversaw the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
the law at issue in this case, told his team to "F the dmca!!!"
"Cox made a deliberate and egregious decision to elevate its own profits
over compliance with the law," the coalition asserts.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and a jury agreed with the
coalition, with the jury awarding the coalition more than a billion
dollars in damages.
Cox argues it should not be liable for its customers' actions as it
never encouraged the copyright infringements, its terms of service
prohibit illegal activities, and it does not make additional money when
customers use its internet to infringe on copyrights.
In its briefs, Cox specified that less than 1% of its users infringe on
music copyrights and that its internal compliance measures "got 95% of
that less than 1% to stop." It asserts that if the Supreme Court does
not side with them, then "that means terminating entire households,
coffee shops, hospitals, universities, and even regional internet
service providers (ISPs)—the internet lifeline for tens of thousands of
homes and businesses—merely because some unidentified person was
previously alleged to have used the connection to infringe."
A decision in the case is expected this summer.
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