Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Online Privacy - Copyright Owners don't need court order to get internet users' identity from US ISPs
Lawmeme reports on this court decision, and what it means. As Miller puts it,
What this means is that as easily as sending a cease and desist order, copyright holders may now request the names and addresses of ISP customers they suspect are copyright pirates
Note that the Eldred decision is already being used to counter attempts at policy arguments by counsel in copyright cases:
With copyright legislation such as the DMCA, "[t]he wisdom of Congress' action ... is not within [the Court's] province to second guess." Eldred v. Ashcroft, slip op. at 32.
Note - Australian law is notlike this - we have no equivalent provision.
NYTimes article here; Declan McCullagh here.
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