The RIAA move stems from a case brought earlier this year by Verizon technologies, who contested 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act that required ISPs reveal the names of its users.  A US District Court ruled in favour of Verizon stating that copyright holders could not force peer-to-peer services to hand over details of its users. The RIAA's attempts to reverse this decision in the Supreme Court was declined yesterday.

This latest setback follows another similar ruling in August that backed ISPs. Then ...