Are we back to the 2000's again?

Sat Jun 3 23:09:40 UTC 2023

On 6/3/23 4:01 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 2:51 PM Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
>> It’s like blaming water companies for people stealing boats :)
> It's been a while and the article is light on the facts of the case,
> but IIRC what happened was: RIAA made some DMCA complaints to Cox. Cox
> decided that since they were the network rather than the host, they
> couldn't "remove" the offending material, wouldn't cut the user's
> access and, because they have such respect for customer privacy,
> wouldn't tell the RIAA who the customers were unless RIAA subpoenaed
> them under a John Doe suit.
>
> The court decided that Cox's behavior was sufficient to waive the
> DMCA's liability shield for Internet providers and off they went to
> trial.

How can the RIAA even know? I mean, are they putting up honey pots or 
something?

Mike