Charter Communications has been sued by a group of major record labels claiming it has failed to address "gross and serial" infringement of music copyrights. The edge has reported. It is the second time in recent years that the group has sued Charter for song piracy.
The labels said they sent about 150,000 infringement notices to Spectrum, Charter's Internet service, including the IP addresses of "tens of thousands" of suspected violators. They claim that the company turned a "blind eye" to the download, which occurred from July 2018 until recently.
Charter insisted on doing nothing despite receiving thousands of notices detailing illegal activity from its subscribers, despite its clear legal obligation to address the widespread and illegal downloading of copyrighted works on its Internet services, as despite having been previously sued by Plaintiffs for similar conduct, "the claim reads.
The same record companies sued Charter in 2019, alleging that subscribers were using torrent services to pirate music between March 2013 and May 2016. "Charter persisted in contributing to and profiting from its subscribers' infringement ... even after receiving Plaintiffs' March and April 2016 notices of claims and, surprisingly, even after Plaintiffs filed the 2019 lawsuit, "according to the latest lawsuit.
The music industry has attacked multiple Internet providers in recent years. In June, record labels sued ISP Frontier over similar allegations of piracy. Internet service provider Cox, meanwhile, lost a $ 1 billion judgment in December 2019, and promised to appeal the settlement at the time.
