Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. v. Verizon Internet Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding a subpoena may not be issued under the DMCA to an ISP acting only as a conduit for data transferred between two internet users
• “Section 512 creates four safe harbors, each of which immunizes ISPs from liability for copyright infringement under certain highly specialized conditions.”
• “It is not the province of the courts . . . to rewrite the DMCA in order to make it fit a new and unforeseen internet architecture [P2P filesharing], no matter how damaging that development has been to [copyright holders].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).