Business Law: Principles for Today's Commercial Environment 3rd Edition by Marianne Moody Jennings, David Twomey, Marianne Jennings

Exercise 2

On July 24, 2002, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) served its first subpoena to obtain the identity of a Verizon subscriber alleged to have made more than 600 copyrighted songs available for downloading over the Internet through peer-to-peer file transfer software provided by KaZaA. Verizon claimed that because RIAA's subpoena related to material transmitted over Verizon's network-rather than stored on it-it fell outside the scope of the subpoena power. Should the subpoena be quashed as Verizon requests, or should it be honored [In re Verizon Internet Services, Inc., 257 F Supp 2d 244 (DDC)]