Record labels have joined together to sue internet service provider RCN
Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group and Warner Music Group along with 14 other record companies filed a federal lawsuit Aug. 27 in New Jersey against RCN accusing it of enabling massive copyright infringement of sound recordings and reaping “substantial profits” from the infringement. The information regarding the infringements was collected from notices sent by Rightscorp Inc.
The plaintiffs contend that Rightscorp evidence has already been successfully used against another internet service provider, Cox Communications, in a similar but unrelated lawsuit. Many of these same record companies have also filed suit against Grande Communications Network LLC -- a sister company of RCN -- in Texas federal district court for secondary copyright infringement.
“Defendants have received more than five million notices that RCN’s customers were using RCN’s internet services to engage in infringement of copyrighted works including tens of thousands of blatant infringements by repeat infringers,” according to the complaint.
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