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Record labels unhappy with court win, say ISP should pay more for user piracy | Music companies appeal, demanding payment for each song instead of each album.
Music companies appeal, demanding payment for each song instead of each album.
Music companies say the per-album decision prevents them from receiving "fair damages" because "sound recordings are primarily commercialized (and generate revenue for copyright owners) as individual tracks, not as parts of albums." The broadband and music publishing industries are waiting to learn whether the Supreme Court will take up a challenge by cable firm Cox Communications, which wants to overturn a ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Sony. Cox has said that the 4th Circuit ruling "would force ISPs to terminate Internet service to households or businesses based on unproven allegations of infringing activity, and put them in a position of having to police their networks...
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