Charter Cable Sues To Quash RIAA Subpoenas

mattOzan writes "Charter Communications, the third largest cable provider in the United States, has filed a motion in St. Louis, Missouri, to block the RIAA's requests for the identities of about 150 Charter customers in the St. Louis area. In the over 1100 subpoenas that have been issued so far, Charter claims they are the only major ISP that has not provided the RIAA with 'a single datum of information.'"

Go Charter

[flyingember]

their prices may suck, they may be needing network upgrades, but go Charter!

New Buisness Plan

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Become ISP
2. When asked by the RIAA to give out names, purposely give out names of people who do not use the internet much, and definetly don't use Kazza
3. Sue RIAA, claiming damages.
4. Profit!!!

I think she married the big mac guy.

[Anonymous Coward]

I think she married the whale who sued Micky D because he super-sized himself to blimpdom.

They happily live in a new subdivision in the country, where they are suing the 115-year-old family farm nearby out of business over the smell of cow manure.

They have two happy children: Skip, who fell off a ladder and got $16 million from a ladder company, and Judy, who was driving 80 mph drunk and wrecked her car but got Ford to pay her $40 million because the firestones were bad.

They voted in the Florida election, where they each punched a chad for Buchanan. In December, they changed their mind about their vote and sued the Republicans for disenfranchisement.

Re:New Buisness Plan

[c_oflynn]

Wow, and AC comment, about Profit, that is actually funny.

Oh hold on a sec, the RIAA just called, something about stopping the lawsuits and pairing up with MS to support Linux.

Logic Error

[AvantLegion]

Charter....... good?

*head explodes*

How Charter kept RIAA away

[Skapare]

Hello and welcome to Charter Communications' legal support department. Your call is very important to us. Please listen to this menu carefully since options have changed. If you are calling about your lawsuit against us because your cable bill is too high, please press 1 now. If you are calling about your lawsuit against us because we double billed you, please press 2 now. If you are calling about your lawsuit against us because we have not paid your program provider fees, please press 3 now. If you are calling about your subpoena to divulge the names and credit card payment records of customers that are sharing music online please press 4 now. If you are calling about our violations of local ....

*** beep *** (pressed 4)

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Hello and welcome to Charter Communications' copyright enforcement department. Your call is very important to us. Please listen to this menu carefully since options have changed. If you are calling about your neighbor recording premium movies, please press 1 now. If you are calling about our customers that are downloading music on the internet, please press 2 now. If you are ....

*** beep *** (pressed 2)

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Hello and welcome to Charter Communications' music piracy department. Your call is very important to us. Please listen to this menu carefully since options have changed. If you are calling about a subpoena you have already sent to us, please have your subpoena registration number handy and press 1 now. If you are calling to register a new subpoena with use, please have the account number of the customer this subpoena refers to handy and press 2 now. If you are calling to obtain a customer account number, please have the name of the customer handy and press 3 now. If you are calling to obtain the name of a customer please have the IP address and time handy, and press 4 now. If you are ....

*** beep *** (pressed 4)

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Hello and welcome to the Charter Communications' online customer identification system. Please have the IP address and time the customer was online handy. If you already have an identification system authorization number, please press 1 now. If you do not already have an identification system authorization number, and wish to register to obtain one, please press 2 now. To repeat this ...

*** beep *** (pressed 2)

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Hello and welcome to the Charter Communications' online customer identification system user authorization registration system. Please listen to this menu carefully since options have changed. If you are already a Charter Communications home cable customer, please press 1 now. If you are already a Charter Communications business internet customer, please press 2 now. If you are not a Charter Communications customer and would like to sign up for Charter Communications' cable service in your home or business today, please press 3 now. If you are not a Charter Communications customer and do not wish to sign up for cable service at this time, please press 4 now. To repeat ....

*** beep *** (pressed 4)

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Hello and welcome to Charter Communications' business relations department. Your call is very important to us. Please listen to this menu carefully since options have changed. If you are calling about an existing business relation that is satisfactory to you, please press 1 now. If you are calling about an existing business relation that is unsatisfactory to you, please press 2 now. If you are calling to establish a new business relationship, please have your business name and taxpayer identification number handy, and press 3 now. To repeat this ....

*** beep *** (pressed 3)

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Hello and welcome to Charter Communications' business rel

Re:Bog them down with litigation

[chl]

you'll have to stop listening to the radio too. They do get paid each time a song is played.

Pssst. They are not supposed to know about that backchannel in every radio set that we use to spy on them. They must continue to think that their radio consumption is private.

chl

Re:Bog them down with litigation

[DoktorGonzo]

Ummm... if you really want to boycott the music industry... you'll have to stop listening to the radio too. They do get paid each time a song is played.

If a song is played on the radio and no one is tuned in to hear, does it make any royalties?

Re:Frivolous McDonald's Lawsuits

[mattkinabrewmindspri]

I live two blocks from the McDonald's that served the coffee in question. I have gotten coffee at that McDonald's plenty of times, and it was never unbearably hot.

Also, I've never seen this anywhere, but that McDonald's is on a very steep hill, and when you're coming away from that drive through, the parking lot goes downhill very fast. You don't open a cup of hot coffee sitting between your knees while driving down a steep hill. Isn't that common sense?

Re:How Charter kept RIAA away

[kaellinn18]

I don't know which is more disturbing: the fact that someone took the time to write all of this, or the fact that I read it all...