Online Privacy Upheld: The recording industry cannot compel an Internet service provider to give up the names of customers who trade music online without judicial review, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled today. ...

As an Internet service provider, or I.S.P., Verizon was "acting merely as a conduit" for the music files and did not store the data on its own computer network, Judge Ginsburg wrote. "A subpoena may be issued only to an I.S.P. engaged in storing on its servers material that is infringing or the subject of infringing activity." ...

The move to notify file traders, Ms. Deutsch suggested, had more to do with public relations than consumers' due process rights. The process that the industry would now have to use, which will involve going to court and asking a judge to compel that a user's identity be revealed, "will be much more protective of users' rights," she said.

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