The Briefing Room
General Category => Economy/Business => Topic started by: corbe on February 15, 2020, 10:35:45 pm
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One Cable Company Just Lost $1 Billion in Court Over Music Piracy
Why now?
by Harry J. Kazianis
February 15, 2020
I think the early 2000s want their lawsuit back.
In what could be a landmark decision, Cox Communications recently lost a battle with a group of record companies, arguing that the telecommunications company did not do enough to protect their products from pirates who were stealing their content and using their networks to do it.
While I have very little sympathy for Cox or the cable industry at large, this award feels way over the top and will do little to stop any sort of digital piracy in the first place.
The jury declared that Cox was liable for a little over ten thousand infringing recordings and compositions on its network. It then went on and granted the plaintiff nearly $100,000 per work—an insane amount of money for such materials.
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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/one-cable-company-just-lost-1-billion-court-over-music-piracy-123996 (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/one-cable-company-just-lost-1-billion-court-over-music-piracy-123996)