NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2010. Subpoenas seeking the names and contact information of thousands of individual Internet users from their respective Internet service providers (ISPs) violate the individual users’ rights to due process and anonymity, according to friend-of-the-court briefs filed late last night by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of the Nation’s Capital, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Citizen Litigation Group. The briefs support Time Warner Cable’s motion to quash or modify subpoenas it received for information about thousands of users who allegedly downloaded certain movies from the Internet using the BitTorrent file sharing application.
