Supreme Court Limits Liability Of Internet Providers When Their Service Is Used For Music Piracy

The Supreme Court sided pinch net supplier Cox Communications, holding that it cannot beryllium held liable for music piracy moreover if they did not return capable steps to curb nan copyright infringement.

The justices, successful a 9-0 ruling, were weighing connected a lengthy ineligible conflict betwixt Cox and Sony Music Entertainment, which had sought immense damages against nan net supplier for not blocking work to those who egregiously downloaded protected works.

“Under our precedents, a institution is not liable arsenic a copyright infringer for simply providing a work to nan wide nationalist pinch knowledge that it will beryllium utilized by immoderate to infringe copyrights,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote successful nan 9-0 ruling.

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