Cox Loses Bid to Reduce $1 Billion Music Copyright Verdict

A group of major record labels’ $1 billion win in a contributory copyright infringement case against Cox Communications Inc. will stand in its entirety, a Virginia federal court said.

Cox failed in its attempt to cut the number of works it was found to infringe in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday.

Record companies including Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Brothers Records Inc. and Universal Music Corp. sued Cox for enabling its subscribers to pirate more than 10,000 works using peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent. A jury found that Cox failed to address the copyright ...