( June 24, 2026, 3:14 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A media and entertainment company argues in a June 23 respondent brief that the U.S. Supreme Court should affirm the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ judgment that a California man is not a “‘consumer’” under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) because he subscribed only to a free newsletter, not to audiovisual goods or services from a videotape service provider and because the man’s contrary reading of the VPPA’s definition of “‘consumer’” would transform a targeted video-rental privacy statute into an internet-privacy law backed by statutory and punitive damages....