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Cox Communications won’t have to pay $1 billion to record labels after all
But it will have to eventually pay something.
The companies accused Cox of not addressing over 10,000 copyright infringement notices and failing to take action against music pirates, such as cutting off their broadband access. But the circuit court reversed the damages, noting that Cox “did not profit from its subscribers’ acts of infringement,” a legal prerequisite for part of the liability. Cox previously asked a federal court in Virginia to lower the damages or give it a new trial.
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