Charter Communications has been sued by a bunch of main file labels who declare it has failed to deal with “flagrant and serial” music copyright infringement, The Verge has reported. It’s the second time over the past a number of years that the group has sued Charter over music piracy. 

The labels stated that they despatched round 150,00 notices of infringement to Spectrum, Charter’s web service, together with the IP addresses of “tens of thousands” of alleged infringers. They declare that the corporate turned a “blind eye” to the downloading, which occurred from July 2018 till lately. 

“Charter insisted on doing nothing despite receiving thousands of notices that detailed the illegal activity of its subscribers, despite its clear legal obligation to address the widespread, illegal downloading of copyrighted works on its Internet services, and despite being sued previously by Plaintiffs for similar conduct,” the declare states.

The identical labels sued Charter in 2019, claiming subscribers have been utilizing torrent providers for music pirating between March 2013 and May 2016. “Charter persisted in contributing to and profiting from its subscribers’ infringement… even after receiving Plaintiffs’ March and April 2016 notices of claims and, remarkably, even after Plaintiffs filed the 2019 lawsuit,” based on the most recent lawsuit. 

The music business has attacked a number of web suppliers over the previous few years. In June, ISP Frontier was sued by file labels over comparable piracy claims. Internet service supplier Cox, in the meantime, lost a $1 billion judgement in December of 2019, and vowed to attraction the settlement on the time.