Music Industry Takes Another Hit in Court

Today the Eigth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis has ruled that the ISP Charter Communications, Inc. would not be required to provide the identities of users accused of downloading music to the RIAA.

This is another victory for ISPs and of P2P software. Last year in the D.C. Circuit Court the court ruled that Verizon would not be required to provide the identities of alleged downloaders to the RIAA. The RIAA has been trying to use the DMCA to make ISPs turn over identities of users. Although, record sales are down and the recording industry is losing money they still have plenty of money to chase downloaders and file suit against ISPs. The RIAA goes after the ISPs because it is cheaper for them to do that than file suit against "John Doe" and then get the name through the court system.