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annointed3

Junior Member
What is the name of your state?VA

Dear Cox High Speed Internet Customer:

I am contacting you as an attorney for Cox Communications to advise you that information concerning your account records has been subpoenaed in the above lawsuit. A copy of the subpoena is attached.

The action was filed by members of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) against 21 customers of Cox Communications. The lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of Georgia and alleges that the unnamed “Doe” defendants have each infringed copyrights owned by MPAA members through use of peer-to-peer internet services.

The lawsuits list an Internet Protocol (IP) address for each of the defendants. Our records indicate that one of the IP addresses listed was assigned to your Cox High Speed Internet account on the date and time described in the lawsuit. The information below includes the relevant “Doe” number, IP address, date and time. Also included is the information concerning your account that Cox will be required to provide.

In order to identify the defendants, MPAA has asked the court to order Cox to provide your name, address, telephone number and email address from our records. If required by the court, the information that we would be required to provide is listed below. The purpose of this notice is to inform you of the lawsuit so that you have the opportunity to file objections and to raise any legal defenses you may have.

To provide you with as much factual information as possible about the status of this and other related lawsuits and the issues they raise, we have set up a page on our Internet website accessible at your Cox.net website under “Hot Topics” or at

http://support.cox.com/sdccommon/asp/contentredirect.asp?sprt_cid=c8bc8c1a-2a73-4755-875f-155a1e35d440

This page provides information on the MPAA filings, answers to some practical questions you may have and links to other websites that may be of help to you. Because this matter involves litigation, our Customer Care staff will not be able to assist you with questions you may have.

We regret being placed in the position of sending this notice, but want you to have every opportunity to protect your interests. We are not permitted to give you legal advice and encourage you to consult an attorney familiar with copyright law immediately.

Doe #11

xx.xx.xx.xxx

Email
[email protected]

Name
xxxxxx

Address
xxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I would like to know what should I do as my next step
 


divgradcurl

Senior Member
Wait for the MPAA's lawyers to contact you, and either take their settlement offer, try and engotiate a settlement offer, or hire a lawyer. You might also want to do some Google research on the MPAA file sharing lawsuits to see what you might be in store for, and maybe check out the EFF's website, they might have some info for you as well. www.eff.org.
 

annointed3

Junior Member
Thanks for your response. I contacted a couple of lawyers today and I was pretty much told that until I get something in writing, there is nothing much I can do at this point. I have done some research on the internet and I somewhat shocked to see that this is not a spam email, but this is real matter that is being dealt within the court system. So now I guess I will have to wait and see what happens next.
 

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