A firm representing copyright holders has dropped its lawsuit attempting to access Birch Communications Inc. customers' private information about online activity as part of a hunt for infringement activity.
Rightscorp, based in Santa Monica, Calif., wanted to see whether Birch customers illegally downloaded recordings online. Rightscorp used a broad interpretation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to argue that it could access the records, but it had not filed any copyright infringement…
A firm representing copyright holders has dropped its lawsuit attempting to access Birch Communications Inc. customers' private information about online activity as part of a hunt for infringement activity.
Rightscorp, based in Santa Monica, Calif., wanted to see whether Birch customers illegally downloaded recordings online. Rightscorp used a broad interpretation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to argue that it could access the records, but it had not filed any copyright infringement…