Finally, a Fair Fight with Big Music [Business Week: Technology]

The RIAA and Verizon are going at it hammer and tong over the issue of revealing a users identity, who was accused of trading music files via a P2P network. To Verizon's credit, they won't do it.

 In a Sept. 10 "friend of the court" brief filed by the U.S. Internet Industry Assn., the ISPs argue that "what the RIAA is really seeking, at the end of the day, is to shift the burden of copyright enforcement from its own members -- who apparently would prefer not to alienate potential customers by suing them outright -- to an ISP that does nothing more than provide an Internet connection to the customer."

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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