Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Verizon Appeal Articles / CyberLaw Posted by elliot on Oct 13, 2004 - 06:21 AM In December, 2003, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned an earlier lower-court ruling allowing the RIAA et al. to use a provision in the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 to subpoena the names of suspected P2P file sharers from Verizon, an ISP. Read that decision here [1]. On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal, letting the appellate decsision stand. Read the article at Wired News [2]. This article is from CyberLaw.Info (tm), Intellectual Property Law, Entertainment Law and Litigation   http://www.cyberlaw.info/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.cyberlaw.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=48 Links in this article   [1] http://www.epic.org/privacy/copyright/verizon/dc-cir-op.pdf   [2] http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65321,00.html