The Recording Industry Association of America is pressing a federal court to ignore cable Internet provider Charter Communications' attempt to keep private the names of 93 subscribers who allegedly traded songs online illegally.

On Friday, the trade organization filed a court memorandum opposing Charter's "motion to quash" a subpoena request for the names. The RIAA charges that Charter is unlawfully withholding the identities of its high-speed Internet subscribers who, it says, disseminated more than 100,000 copyrighted songs in peer-to-peer communities like Kazaa without the permission of rights holders.

Among other arguments, the RIAA is denying claims by Charter that it has not filed proper documentation to receive the detailed information on alleged infringers, including their names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses.

This one is going to get ugly.

If I know my government well enough, I do believe it is unlawful for a business to demand private information of the likes they demand. This is a civil suit and not a felony charge. I trully think the RIAA is just trying to pin evidence on random names as opposed to showing actual evidence. In the long run, RIAA is the one that will lose in huge large ways that are not imaginable yet.