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End of Online Anonymity in Canada?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the impossible-or-inevitable dept.

boochy writes "Are we close to losing our anonymity online in Canada? As Angela Pacienza writes in a National Post article; "The record industry's attempts to sue people who share music online threaten to change the widely held expectation that everyone's anonymous when surfing the Internet, lawyers representing the public interest argued Monday." This is a very interesting article that shows how much the lawyers representing the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic are trying their best to protect our privacy online."

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  1. Ha ha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You filthy Americans lose more freedoms every day and you wi....er....wait.....

  2. Uh.. by hookedup · · Score: 5, Funny

    What? End of my anonymity? But I just paid $199 for my computer to stop broadcasting an ip address!

  3. Loosing? by PhotoGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't no about hour anonymity, but we shore seem to be loosing hour ability to use the write words when we right.

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  4. I think... by wtlssndlssfthlss · · Score: 3, Funny

    If someone believes they are completely anonymous while simply surfing around, they should be dense enough to think a lawsuit is just some legally mandated article of clothing.

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  5. ObJoke by grahamlee · · Score: 5, Funny
    Are we close to loosing our anonymity online in Canada?

    They're letting anonymous Canadians loose? RUN TO THE HILLS!! "But they're coming from the hills" Run AWAY from the hills! If you see a hill, run in the other direction!

  6. we are anonymous! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The author of this post proves it

  7. Old news for /.ers by aelfric35 · · Score: 4, Funny

    We've all known, especially those of us with static IPs, that the Internet isn't so anonymous. Anyone who cares badly enough could probably find out who was hiding behind that IP address to download Britney's latest single (ooh! the scandal!). But the article isn't talking about /.ers; it's about Average Joe Canadian. Hey, since it's frickin' cold in Canada, does anybody want to go into business selling tinfoil-lined ski hats?

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  8. yeah, but... by inkedmn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Having anonyimity in Canada is like wearing a ski mask to an adult theater; It's great that nobody knows who you are, but nobody's really looking at you because they're all staring at the guys on horses...

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