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Court Again Rejects RCN Music Piracy Suit Counterclaims

U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp in Trenton, New Jersey, again shot down RCN counterclaims against music label plaintiffs and Rightscorp in the labels' copyright infringement suit against the cable ISP, per a docket 3:19-cv-17272 opinion Friday. RCN argued Rightscorp's infringement…

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notification system violates California unfair competition law and said the labels are complicit. Shipp said the harms RCN alleges it suffered, such as additional work hours, weren't sufficient to give it statutory standing under the California law. He also dismissed without prejudice similar counterclaims in 2021 for lack of standing.