CRIA Prepares To Sue P2P Copyright Violators

ergo98 writes "The Canadian version of the RIAA, the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association), has begun laying the PR groundwork for an initiative similar to that pursued by the RIAA in the US - threatening to file lawsuits against individual file sharers (specifically uploaders). They claim that CD sales have dropped by 23 per cent since 1999, attributing that drop to P2P, and apparently it isn't enough that the Canadian music industry gets a hefty presume-you-are-a-criminal levy attached on various devices and media." Many readers also point to the Globe and Mail's version of the story. dsanfte writes "They will apparently only be targetting uploaders, because in the Copyright Board's judgement, P2P downloading is legal under Canadian law."

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No parity between uploading and downloading

[HTH NE1]

For every downloader, there must be an uploader.

So for every case of shoplifting, there must be a shelf that pushed a product into the thief's hands and a store that shoved him out the door? Sorry, a store can give free gifts without the recipient being charged with shoplifting, and a shoplifter can't get off by claiming the item was a free gift.

There is no parity between an upload and a download. Anyone who tells you different is trying to convict you of something.

If you want to make it a crime to deliberately place works copyrighted by others without securing the copyright holder's permission on an unprotected filesystem with the intent that they would be copied by others, fine, but don't call it uploading.

What's next, making selling candy bars via the honor system illegal?