The Supreme Court Just Killed the $47M Piracy Verdict Against Your ISP
The record labels spent years suing ISPs for not kicking off pirates. The Supreme Court just said that’s not how copyright law works.
$47 million verdict — vacated. $1 billion Cox ruling — reversed 9-0. Record labels’ entire ISP liability strategy — in free fall.
On April 6, the U.S. Supreme Court told the Fifth Circuit to take another look at the Grande Communications case. And by “take another look,” they meant “apply the new rule we just set that basically torches your entire reasoning.” This follows the unanimous Cox v. Sony decision from March 25 that said ISPs aren’t liable for users’ piracy just because they kept the lights on.
