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On Friday, Verizon filed its formal legal opposition to the Recording Industry Association of America's request for info about a Kazaa user. RIAA has invoked a turbocharged subpoena process possibly available to it under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; Verizon says that the procedure does not cover peer-to-peer users. A judge gets to decide which side has the better argument. Read Verizon's reply: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/verizon.brief.090302.pdf Also on Friday, a coaliation of nonprofit groups filed an amicus brief siding with Verizon: http://www.politechbot.com/p-03937.html And see: "RIAA presses Verizon for name of peer-to-peer subscriber" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03908.html "Verizon's copyright campaign" http://news.com.com/2008-1082-955417.html?tag=politech -Declan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------