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Music Industry Loses In Canadian Downloading Case

Posted by timothy on from the land-of-the-free-once-removed dept.

pref writes "'Canada's music industry can't force Internet service providers to identify online music sharers, a Federal Court judge has ruled.' They wanted the Internet service companies like Sympatico, Rogers and Shaw to give them the real identities of the individuals so they could sue them for copyright infringement. They were seeking a court order requiring the companies to provide the information. But they didn't get it, so the Internet companies don't have to identify their clients and the music companies can't proceed with their lawsuits.""

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  1. but... by ambienceman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i thought the mounties rode around on horses...

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  2. Re:gay married music pirates! by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't forget getting high :)

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  3. Re:Well, I'm proud! by mrbcs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and of course that damn c-250 bill they're about to pass. Yes, friends, we can download till the cows come home... but we don't have any free speech. The Bible will soon be hate literature in Canuckville. ;-(

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  4. Re:obligatory Rick Mercer apology by st0rmcold · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You've taken the thoughts right out of my head, We can also apologize for having objective judges that dont take monetary bribes from the corporation to bend judgements. Technically it isen't our fault, but same with the beer, we feel your pain :) I would like to say how proud I am to be Canadian. When's the p2p wing scheduled to open in the Guatanemo Bay Torture Prison?

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  5. Re:So wait a minute by IgnoramusMaximus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Where in anything that I said did you get the belief that I wanted to abolish medicare?

    I dont know what it is with these right wing maniacs. Why cant they understand that private MRI's and private parallel system will result in the public one to be degenerated to the level reminiscent of public housing in the US, Graffitti covered slums next to shiney new "for-pay" clinics. What you argue is abolishment of medicare for all practical purposes. You might not comprehend how economic and political forces work and that probably precludes any sane discussion, but that is what will happen. Unlike the "under-the-table" for pay system involving travel to the USA, a Canadian based one removes any restrictions on flow of personell and investment from the public system to the far, far more profitable private one. There is only one outcome possible.

    So instead of whining about how you should be able to be better off then everyone else since you got cash to grease the wheels with, perheaps you should try to work on seeing why the MRIs are so overbooked or underfunded. Perheaps the cost of the units at $20 million a pop (90% profit margin) has something to do with it. Or maybe a practice of running the MRI systems 3 hours-a day to create artificial shortage so that the same people who are doing it can go on the talk shows and blabber about how much better it would be if they were allowed to run a private MRI center. Get a clue because your understaning of what is going on here is on par with that of a cow being led to slaughter.

    Medical services are different from every other kind of "business" because they involve desperate and suffering people who can be abused for profit in basically unlimited ways. Just look at what is happening in the USA. Our "communist" system is unsustainable?! They will end up paying 80% of their GDP for partial coverage of 15% of their population if the trend continues! That is what you propose, even if you dont understand it.