Friday, April 15, 2005

Yahoo! News - Comcast Sued for Disclosing Customer Information

Yahoo! News - Comcast Sued for Disclosing Customer Information: "Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq:CMCSA - news), the top U.S. cable television network operator, is being sued by a Seattle-area woman for disclosing her name and contact information, court records showed on Thursday.
In a lawsuit filed in King County, Washington, Dawnell Leadbetter said that she was contacted by a debt collection agency in January and told to pay a $4,500 for downloading copyright-protected music or face a lawsuit for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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The RIAA has filed thousands of lawsuits since September and settled several hundred for about $3,000 each."

Meanwhile, "Comcast Internet clients having problems (I don't mean to imply a correlation)

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