We told you yesterday that AT&T and Comcast were ready to start tag-teaming your music pirating ass with their buds over at RIAA. Not so fast, says the same guy who supposedly said they were going to start issuing takedown notices.
In reality, AT&T is doing nothing of the sort, says Jim Cicconi, AT&T's executive vice president for external affairs. "Any suggestion that there is a deal between us and RIAA is just bogus," he told USA TODAY. Cicconi says AT&T has been testing a "procedure" for forwarding warning notices from copyright holders — music and software publishers, gaming companies, and others — to alert customers that they might be in violation of copyright laws. While the notices are delivered via email by AT&T, the actual warnings are from the copyright holders, he notes.
So, you see? AT&T is not the bad guy after all. They're an errand boy, sent by the grocer's clerk to collect the bill. (Via
Idolator.)
