ISPs Warn Verizon Ruling Puts Customers' Privacy at Risk

Internet service providers said their customers' rights to privacy and due process are at risk after a judge ruled that one ISP must surrender the name of a subscriber suspected of illegally trading music files. The Recording Industry Association of America subpoenaed the ISP, Verizon Communications, to hand over the subscriber's name using powers granted to copyright holders under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.