Petteri Pyyny
11 May 2003 15:38
A federal appeals court has extended the 14-day deadline for Verizon to give up its subscriber's personal details to RIAA. The 14-day limit was set by a district court at the end of April.
Appeals court is expected to make its own decision by end of this month whether Verizon should comply with the district court order and hand out the data immediately to RIAA or whether it can wait for the full hearing of appeals court that is scheduled to begin at 16th of September, this year.
The case is about a subscriber of Verizon (Verizon is one of the biggest American ISPs) that RIAA claims has distributed illegal music over the P2P networks. RIAA sued Verizon because it didn't provide RIAA the subscribers details. Verizon claims that RIAA has to first sue the "John Doe" anonymously and if the court decides that "John Doe"'s personal details should be told to RIAA, Verizon would then comply. District court ruled in April that Verizon must provide the details to RIAA, whether the RIAA can prove that the subscriber has violated law or not, without a court order.
Source: News.com