sbc does good thing

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:07:11 -0400
> From: charles brownstein <cbrownst () cnri reston va us>
> Subject: sbc does good thing
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> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
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> NYT Store
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> SBC Won't Name Names in File-Sharing Cases
> By SETH SCHIESEL
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> s the recording industry pursues its lawsuits against those it says are 
> digital music pirates, SBC Communications has emerged as the only major 
> Internet service provider that has so far refused to identify computer 
> users whom the industry suspects of copyright infringement.
>
> Since early July, major high-speed Internet providers - including 
> BellSouth ,Comcast ,EarthLink , Time Warner Cable and Verizon - have 
> complied with more than 1,000 subpoenas from the record industry's 
> lobbying arm, the Recording Industry Association of America, to turn over 
> the names of their customers who are otherwise known only by the murky 
> screen names and numeric Internet Protocol addresses used in cyberspace.
>
> SBC, the No. 2 regional phone company and a major local telecommunications 
> service provider in the Midwest and West, has received about 300 such 
> subpoenas and has refused to answer any o

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