Emails reveal how Cox lost Safe Harbor

DMCA's not being handled properly

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We now know why US cable ISP Cox Communications lost the "safe harbor" DMCA liability protection afforded to those who disconnect high volume P2P file sharers.

It appears to be down to its failure to take infringement notices sufficiently seriously, a US court has ruled.

[theregister.co.uk...]

This won't affect most of us, but there are some things involved we might want to know about.

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Music publisher BMG, part of Bertelsmann, is suing cable giant Cox Communications for abetting copyright infringement. The core of the issue is how the ISP handled heavy infringers, subscribers responsible for downloading tens of thousands of files via the BitTorrent protocol.

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