{"id":199111,"date":"2026-03-25T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/supreme-court-says-internet-service-provider-isnt-liable-for-bootlegged-music-downloads\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:05:16","slug":"supreme-court-says-internet-service-provider-isnt-liable-for-bootlegged-music-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/supreme-court-says-internet-service-provider-isnt-liable-for-bootlegged-music-downloads\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court says internet service provider isn\u2019t liable for bootlegged music downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/25\/politics\/music-industry-internet-supreme-court\">Supreme Court says internet service provider isn\u2019t liable for bootlegged music downloads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/25\/politics\/music-industry-internet-supreme-court\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/25\/politics\/music-industry-internet-supreme-court<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-25 10:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the presented article:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that major internet service providers cannot be held liable for copyright infringement if they do not remove known violators from their network.<br \/>\n&#8211; Justice Clarence Thomas authored the opinion for the court, stating that companies aren&#8217;t liable for allowing services that others might use to infringe on copyrights.<br \/>\n&#8211; The nation\u2019s music labels argued that internet providers should be held responsible for not cutting off users who share bootlegged music, claiming economic benefits from such actions.<br \/>\n&#8211; Record companies, including Sony Music Entertainment, were initially awarded $1 billion in damages against Cox Communications for copyright infringement.<br \/>\n&#8211; Despite a lower court verdict, a federal appeals court found Cox Communications indirectly liable, prompting Cox to warn of severe consequences for internet users if their stance prevailed.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Supreme Court&#8217;s decision aligns with previous rulings that shield major corporations from liability for enabling infringement.<br \/>\n&#8211; High-profile tech companies like X (formerly Twitter) and Google supported internet service providers, fearing widespread repercussions for technology and artificial intelligence platforms if the ruling went against them.<br \/>\n&#8211; There are concerns that tech companies might self-censor to avoid risks associated with copyright lawsuits, leading to broader implications for content creation and AI use.<\/p>\n<p>This summary captures the key elements of the court\u2019s decision and its ramifications for both the music industry and broader technological practices.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court says internet service provider isn\u2019t liable for bootlegged music downloads https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/25\/politics\/music-industry-internet-supreme-court Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap26051825567399.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-199111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199113,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199111\/revisions\/199113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}