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Well, I finally found it again...saw the word "can" in a domain name and that got me thinking; the site is the CanFLI Network:

http://canfli.org/

um, precisely what the fuck are you talking about?

I can see that you may seem to think that we can download music legally, and we can, although uploading it IS in most probability, illegal. I say probably, because it hasn't yet been tested in court. For more information on the topic of music sharing in Canada, I would suggest visiting CanFLI.

But movies? SOFTWARE? You are only fooling yourself, so stop trying to bullshit others into your fucked up and misinformed point of view and go pay your damn software license fees, you fucking pirate. I mean seriously, did you even bother to research this, or did someone on IRC just tell you and you assumed it was true? jeez...

For the Canadians reading this, you may want to check out CanFLI Network

Michael
http://phantasyrpg.com/main.php?view=9898

I think we should be proud that we are causing them to notice us during the election. We need to push harder, but we have a good start.

In the 2001 consultations we easily generated 650 of the 700 responses received. I'm hoping to get an even larger number of people involved during the election asking questions during all candidates debates and so-on.

We also have a petition for users rights that we will be presenting to the new parliament. Currently we have between 100 and 200 signatures, and I really want that to be over a 1000! If 650 people will write a letter to government bureaucrats to signify they don't want a DMCA in Canada, we should be able to get over 1000 people telling parliament directly!

Note: The recording industry claims that they asked for the levy as a stop-gap before they got Legal protection for DRM. They also more recently claimed that they lost a court case (BMG CANADA INC. vs. John and Jane doe) claiming that there is a "hole in the copyright act". There is no hole in the copyright act, unless you count the blank media levy and their entire lack of evidence of copyright infringement.

See: The Canadian File-sharing Legal Information Network (CanFLI) for more information on that case.

Actually, given the discrepancy between Soundscan (who measure all sales) and the RIAA, who measure only member sales, the boycott is in fact working.

Sites like Downhill Battle, RIAA Radar and Canfli.

They can't, yet.

It's an older story - for recent updates, hit google or check www.canfli.org which seems to be keeping on top of things.

Everybody who is interested in this should take some time to read the actual Notice of Motion from CRIA: Federal Court Documents

If you have decent reading comprehension, you'll notice that CRIA's "civil search warrant" efforts go far beyond asking an ISP to help identify people sharing files (check out the Schedule A of the Notice of Motion). CRIA wants the data in para. 1... thats who they target their extortion settlement letters. Its para. 2 that gets nasty. They want the ISP to swear a statement that User A is responsible for sharing out Files A-Z.

This has nothing to do with fucked-up network infrastructure, it has everything to do with an ISP not logging details of your behavior to the extent that they can swear an affidavit about what you did.

All this makes we wonder just how much good ol' roll-over-and-take-it-up-the-ass Videotron logs about their customers...

Everybody who is interested in this should take some time to read the actual Notice of Motion from CRIA: Federal Court Documents

If you have decent reading comprehension, you'll notice that CRIA's "civil search warrant" efforts go far beyond asking an ISP to help identify people sharing files (check out the Schedule A of the Notice of Motion). CRIA wants the data in para. 1... thats who they target their extortion settlement letters. Its para. 2 that gets nasty. They want the ISP to swear a statement that User A is responsible for sharing out Files A-Z.

This has nothing to do with fucked-up network infrastructure, it has everything to do with an ISP not logging details of your behavior to the extent that they can swear an affidavit about what you did.

All this makes we wonder just how much good ol' roll-over-and-take-it-up-the-ass Videotron logs about their customers...

For those that are Canadian and reading this, check out CanFLI (http://www.canfli.org/)...the site is currently having issues but bookmark it and check it out later; it's a site where there are lawyers who are willing to help you if you get sued by the CRIA.


Michael Lauzon, Founder
The Quill Society
http://www.quillsociety.org/
mlauzon@quillsociety.org