ST. LOUIS (AP) - Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR) has filed a federal lawsuit attempting to block the recording industry from obtaining names of Charter customers who allegedly shared copyrighted music over the Internet.

Charter, based in the St. Louis suburb of Town and Country, filed papers Friday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis trying to quash subpoenas that the Recording Industry Association of America issued seeking the identities of about 150 Charter customers.

"We are the only major cable company that has not as yet provided the RIAA a single datum of information," Tom Hearity, vice president and associate general counsel for Charter, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The recording association has subpoenaed information as part of its effort to crack down on illegal distribution of copyrighted music. So far, the group has filed lawsuits against 261 people.


Hopefully I am not one of the 150 customers that the RIAA is trying to subpoena, hopefully my firewall and peerguardian have been doing their jobs. I am preparing a statement in the event that one is needed to tell them that any suspiscous files have been tracked down and deleted. Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping it doesn't come to that but we will have to wait and see.....

Nice ISP, support them ^^

peerguardian about to be tested

if so remember that it will only block tcp-ip and not udp that most file shareing apps are useing

so try protowall if you have windows 2000,xp or server 2003 as it offers more protection

if you have 9x or me then use the blocklist manager to add in the ip filters to the p2p apps that you are useing,as with the ips filtered out it will block all access to that program.

with alot of the p2p apps useing ip blocking now i would recomend not to use the ones that do not offer ip blocking,as if the ip is in the database they are not going to get in