Sony Music Entertainment Inc. v. Does 1-40

Decided 2004-07-26

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OPINION CHIN, District Judge. In this case, plaintiffs — seventeen record companies — sued forty unidentified “Doe” defendants for copyright infringement, alleging that defendants illegally downloaded and distributed plaintiffs’ copyrighted or exclusively licensed songs from the Internet, using a “peer to peer” file copying network. Plaintiffs…

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