Verizon to Appeal v. RIAA

This CNET article by Declan McCullagh reports that Verizon will appeal to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the wake of the adverse ruling by the District Court there.

The article points out something that I noted in an entry here two days ago. The dispute is not about whether Verizon will have to identify an alleged infringer ever; it's only about whether the RIAA can use the DMCA's accelerated mechanism. Even if Verizon wins, the RIAA can still file a "John Doe" suit against the infringer and then get a subpoena to require Verizon to provide evidence of the infringer's identity. They'd rather not do that, though, because it would be slower and more expensive.

Update: D'ohh. Howard got to the story last night, so most of y'all probably knew this already.