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Sony Music Slams Cox Communications' Challenge to $1B Piracy Verdict
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billboard.com"Cox conduct was not that of a single, rogue employee. It was endemic to the culture of a company that systematically helped infringers, openly mocked copyright laws, and lied to copyright owners." Sony Music Entertainment says Cox Communications deserves to pay the $1 billion jury verdict levied against it in December for facilitating a “massive scale” piracy scheme, according to a new court motion filed Friday.
The motion was lodged in response to Cox’s request on Jan. 31 asking a judge to either grant it a new trial or overturn the verdict, calling it “completely divorced from the trial evidence” and saying it “constitutes a miscarriage of justice.” “For years, Cox knowingly facilitated piracy of [Sony Music’s] copyrighted works on the
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