One of the nation’s most prolific P2P copyright trolls has raised the stakes in its ongoing fight with two leading ISPs, naming AT&T and Comcast as defendants in an Illinois lawsuit.
The law firms behind these mass lawsuits have accused ISPs of trying to profit from their customers’ infringing activity for years. But that’s often just talk. While disputes over subpoenas have led trolls and ISPs to regularly cross swords in the courtroom, we’re not aware of any cases of an ISP being named as a defendant in one of these lawsuits.
That changed last week in an Illinois case. Prenda Law, representing the porn company Lightspeed Media, had issued subpoenas seeking the identity of 6,600 people. AT&T and Comcast objected to these subpoenas. In July, the Illinois Supreme Court sided with the ISPs and quashed the subpoenas.
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