Cable company Altice agreed to give Warner and other record labels the names and contact information of 100 broadband subscribers who were accused of pirating songs.
Cable company Altice agreed to give Warner and other record labels the names and contact information of 100 broadband subscribers who were accused of pirating songs.
In Australia they tried this on with iiNet who told them to get stuffed.
They were taken to court and iiNet won. The appeal was dismissed by the Full Federal Court. Then it was dismissed again in the High Court
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_Pty_Ltd_v_iiNet_Ltd
The main difference between this and that appear to be that in this case the copyright holders are seeking to identify users, while in that case they had already identified people and were mad they were justifiably ignored when they provided insufficient information when requesting a block.