Article: Verizon, SBC Fight Recording Industry on Names.

By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 17--Consumers targeted by the recording industry for sharing music online are finding powerful allies in the nation's two biggest phone companies.

The record labels' latest effort to curb piracy by identifying and suing individual Internet file swappers is drawing opposition from Verizon Communications Inc. and SBC Communications Inc., which claim the campaign violates basic privacy rights.

On Tuesday, a U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington began hearing a case brought by Verizon to quash the recording industry's demand that the phone company finger Internet ...

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