Cox Communications
American cable provider
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2023 | Cox Mobile introduces a new CGI sheep named Annie as their marketing character. |
February 2023 | Cox acquired Logicworks, a New York-headquartered managed cloud services company, for an undisclosed sum. |
March 23 2022 | The district court denied Cox's motion for relief regarding the copyright infringement lawsuit. |
December 27 2021 | Cox filed a motion for relief with the district court, alleging concealed evidence from a separate lawsuit against Charter. |
May 24 2021 | Cox appealed the $1 billion verdict to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. |
January 12 2021 | The court upheld the full $1 billion verdict against Cox after backtracking on the previous suggestion about damage calculations. |
2020 | Cox Communications reduced upstream internet speeds for entire neighborhoods from 35 Mbit/s to 10 Mbit/s due to excessive usage by individual users within those neighborhoods. |
June 2 2020 | The judge ruled that the jury's $1 billion verdict was not excessive but suggested damages should be issued per work, not per copyright. |
December 19 2019 | A jury ruled against Cox in the lawsuit by 53 record labels and awarded $1 billion in damages. |
August 27 2018 | Cox and BMG Rights Management reached a confidential settlement before the case was scheduled to be retried. |
July 31 2018 | A billion-dollar lawsuit was filed against Cox by 53 record labels, including Sony, Universal, and Warner Brothers, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. |
February 1 2018 | The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the $25 million verdict against Cox due to erroneous jury instructions, but upheld the loss of safe harbor protections. |
February 14 2017 | Cox was ordered to pay an additional $8.5 million in costs related to the BMG copyright infringement lawsuit. |
2016 | Cox licensed and deployed Comcast's Xfinity X1 platform on its Contour service, with at least 1 million subscribers. |
November 7 2016 | Cox appealed the BMG copyright infringement verdict to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. |
August 8 2016 | The federal judge reaffirmed the verdict against Cox in the BMG Rights Management copyright infringement case. |
December 17 2015 | Cox was found guilty of willful contributory copyright infringement by a federal jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in a lawsuit by BMG Rights Management, and ordered to pay $25 million in damages. |
2013 | Cox discontinues using the 'Digeez' characters in their marketing campaigns. |
August 2013 | Cox launched Contour, a new television platform featuring recommendations and a user profile system across multiple devices. |
September 2011 | Cox added Cox Home Security to its product suite. |
February 2011 | Cox Communications completed its Alternative Energy Project, installing two fuel cell systems at its San Diego and Rancho Santa Margarita headquarters to reduce dependence on the local power grid. |
November 19 2010 | Cox began offering wireless services in Orange County, California; Omaha, Nebraska; and Hampton Roads, Virginia. |
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