Over the past few years, record labels have been suing ISPs for not removing music pirates from their services, and today, the record labels may have won a tremendous victory. A US District Court jury has found Cox Communications liable for piracy infringement of more than 19, musical works, and as a result, has awarded $ 1 billion in damages to Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and EMI, as reported byBillboardandVariety.
Essentially, the recording industry just showed that a jury will buy its argument that an ISP should be held liable for failing to kick a music pirate off its network. And similar lawsuits like the one Cox lost today have been filedagainst Charter,Charter subsidiary Bright House Networks,RCN, andGrande Communications, so there’s a chance that rulings against those companies could go similarly.
In statements given toBillboardandVariety, Cox said it plans to appeal the case.
This suit follows another against Cox from BMG, which wasawarded $ 25 millionin damages in 2017 after Cox was found guilty of ignoring copyright infringement warnings from copyright enforcement company Rightscorp. That decision was reversed on appeal in (****************************************, but before a retrial could happen, Cox paid out a settlement to BMG.
a “six strikes” program
intended to scare pirates, but nothing substantial actually happened when someone received six strikes, so the programended inafter failing to scare off repeat pirates.(Read More************************ ()
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