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Jan 22 03:02 UTC 2003

In one of the music industry's biggest legal wins to date, a federal
judge has ruled that copyright holders can use the expedited subpoena
powers of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to compel ISPs to 
disclose the subscriber ID associated with a given IP address when
the copyright holder has observed that IP address
offering copyrighted files on a peer-to-peer service, such as Kazaa.
 
No judicial review is required of such expedited subpoenas.

The DMCA procedures clearly applied in cases where the suspected
copyright infringement resided on a web server at the ISP's office;
 
The case turned on whether the DMCA applies to ISPs in their role 
passing through files which resided on subscribers' own computers.

It would appear that, at a minimum, many thousands of P2P users will
shortly be getting direct communications from the RIAA.

This was the "RIAA vs. Verizon" case.

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57330,00.html