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Title: ISP Settles With Record Labels That Demanded Mass Termination of
Internet Users

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/02/1811...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Internet service provider Frontier
Communications agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by major record labels that
demanded mass disconnections of broadband users accused of piracy. Universal,
Sony, and Warner sued Frontier in 2021. In a notice of settlement filed last
week in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the parties
agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice, with each side to pay its own fees
and costs. The record labels and Frontier simultaneously announced a
settlement of similar claims in a Bankruptcy Court case in the same district.
Frontier also settled with movie companies in April of this year, just before
a trial was scheduled to begin. (Frontier exited bankruptcy in 2021.) [...]
Regardless of what is in the agreement, the question of whether ISPs should
have to crack down more harshly on users accused of piracy could be decided
by the US Supreme Court.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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