Frontier Must Reveal User Data in Movie-Pirating Litigation

Movie-company claimants can require telecommunications company Frontier Communications Corp. to reveal the personal information of its subscribers who allegedly infringed the movie companies’ copyrights, a federal bankruptcy court said.

The companies were able to make a prima facie case that their copyrights had been infringed, and to show that the information they sought was necessary to advancing their claims of secondary infringement against Frontier, Judge Martin Glenn of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York said Dec. 1.

The case is part of a surge in recent litigation by copyright holders against ISPs that allegedly failed ...