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Copyright safe harbour will be trashed if Cox wins Supreme Court appeal, say major labels

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Cox Communications • 3 min read

Copyright safe harbour will be trashed if Cox wins Supreme Court appeal, say major labels

The long running legal battle between ISP Cox and the major labels has finally reached the US Supreme Court. The outcome will impact on how the music industry fights online piracy. Indeed, the majors’ lawyer says if Cox wins, the long established copyright safe harbour will be “a dead letter”…

Chris Cooke • 02 Dec 2025

Upholding major labels' billion dollar ruling against Cox will have “seismic and dangerous ramifications”

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Cox Communications • 2 min read

Upholding major labels' billion dollar ruling against Cox will have “seismic and dangerous ramifications”

Next month the US Supreme Court will review the major labels’ billion dollar legal win against Cox. The ISP has made another filing with the top court, again presenting doom and gloom predictions, insisting that if the majors’ win is upheld there will be “seismic and dangerous ramifications”…

Chris Cooke • 10 Nov 2025

Majors tell US Supreme Court to ignore ISP’s doom and gloom predictions and uphold billion dollar piracy ruling

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Cox Communications • 3 min read

Majors tell US Supreme Court to ignore ISP’s doom and gloom predictions and uphold billion dollar piracy ruling

The majors have urged the US Supreme Court to uphold their billion dollar win in a piracy lawsuit against ISP Cox. It argues that that ruling will result in mass internet disconnections, but the majors say that’s not true, and that Cox was simply held liable after saying ‘fuck copyright law’…

Chris Cooke • 16 Oct 2025

US government set to side with Cox in court to overturn billion dollar damages judgement

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Cox Communications • 2 min read

US government set to side with Cox in court to overturn billion dollar damages judgement

Not only is the US government backing Cox Communications as it tries to overturn the billion dollar ruling in its long-running copyright battle with the major labels, but US Solicitor General D John Sauer now wants ten minutes to tell Supreme Court judges directly why they should side with the ISP…

Chris Cooke • 25 Sep 2025

Plethora of tech companies and organisations back Cox as Supreme Court considers billion dollar music piracy case

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Cox Communications • 4 min read

Plethora of tech companies and organisations back Cox as Supreme Court considers billion dollar music piracy case

American ISP Cox Communications wants the US Supreme Court to overturn the billion dollar music piracy judgement secured against it by the major labels. Last week loads of tech companies and trade organisations, and the US DoJ, made filings with the top court backing Cox and its legal arguments…

Chris Cooke • 08 Sep 2025

Billion dollar piracy win for majors “defies common law and common sense” says Cox

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Cox Communications • 3 min read

Billion dollar piracy win for majors “defies common law and common sense” says Cox

The US Supreme Court has agreed to review the long-running legal battle between ISP Cox and the major labels. Cox wants the top court to reverse the billion dollar ruling in that litigation and, in a new court filing, again claims that failing to do so will result in mass internet disconnections…

Chris Cooke • 01 Sep 2025

Major labels “bewildered” by why Trump appointee would meddle in Cox Communications piracy case

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Major labels “bewildered” by why Trump appointee would meddle in Cox Communications piracy case

Donald Trump’s Solicitor General recently urged the US Supreme Court to intervene in the major labels’ legal battle with ISP Cox, expressing concerns that precedent set in the case could lead to millions of internet disconnections. The majors now say that intervention is “bewildering” and wrong…

Chris Cooke • 13 Jun 2025

Major labels face setback as Trump’s pet DOJ legal beagle sides with Cox in piracy battle

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Cox Communications • 5 min read

Major labels face setback as Trump’s pet DOJ legal beagle sides with Cox in piracy battle

Trump’s Solicitor General D John Sauer has backed Cox Communications’ bid for a Supreme Court review of its lawsuit with the majors, arguing that the ruling breaks 40 years of precedent and could force ISPs to cut internet access for Americans based on a single copyright complaint…

Chris Cooke • 29 May 2025

Signposting youtube-dl streamripper not allowed confirms German appeals court, as US Supreme Court weighs in on majors v Cox

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Music industry legal news coverage • 4 min read

Signposting youtube-dl streamripper not allowed confirms German appeals court, as US Supreme Court weighs in on majors v Cox

A German appeals court has upheld a ruling secured by the record industry ordering Uberspace to takedown a website about stream-ripping code youtube-dl. Meanwhile the US Supreme Court has invited the Solicitor General to share her views on the big legal battle between the majors and ISP Cox…

Chris Cooke • 26 Nov 2024

Cox again urges Supreme Court to review major label dispute, to stop “innocent users” losing internet access because “a guest downloaded a couple of songs”

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Cox again urges Supreme Court to review major label dispute, to stop “innocent users” losing internet access because “a guest downloaded a couple of songs”

Cox Communications has made another filing with the US Supreme Court, which it wants to intervene in its billion dollar legal dispute with the major record companies. Much of the submission deals with legal technicalities, but it also makes some bombastic ‘save the internet’ type statements…

Chris Cooke • 06 Nov 2024

Music groups ask US Supreme Court to stop “race to the bottom” by ISPs in anti-piracy work

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Cox Communications • 2 min read

Music groups ask US Supreme Court to stop “race to the bottom” by ISPs in anti-piracy work

After four ISPs made a filing with the US Supreme court supporting Cox in its legal battle with the major record labels, now six organisations representing copyright owners have made a submission in support of the music companies. The majors are trying to protect their billion dollar damages…

Chris Cooke • 20 Sep 2024

US internet providers slam “extortionate pressure” of copyright lawsuits as they urge the Supreme Court to scrap Cox judgement

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Cox Communications • 3 min read

US internet providers slam “extortionate pressure” of copyright lawsuits as they urge the Supreme Court to scrap Cox judgement

Cox Communications is trying to get the US Supreme Court to review the billion dollar judgement in its legal battle with the major record companies. Yesterday four other ISPs made a submission to the court supporting their rival and urging the top court to intervene…

Chris Cooke • 17 Sep 2024