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Canadian Music Swappers Win Court Battle

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the carry-on dept.

Columbo writes "The CBC has an article today detailing a win for file sharers in Canadian courts. The ruling upheld the right of ISPs to withhold the names and addresses of people alleged to be trading copious amounts of music via P2P networks. The unanimous decision doesn't completely close the door for further action against the ISPs by the Canadian Recording Industry Association."

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  1. Its far from over though ... by Lanhdanan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The court also said "The appeal will be dismissed without prejudice to the plaintiffs' right to commence a further application for disclosure of the identity of the `users' taking into account these reasons,''

    The CRIA was told, if they wanted too, to come back "with stronger, and more current, evidence".

    It might be interesting to see how they come back and how the Canadian courts view their new case.

    Lets hope privacy wins the day!

    Now, back to watching my government possibly lose a confidence vote :(

  2. text of the ruling by limber · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here's the text of the ruling.

    This ruling may only be a temporary setback for the CRIA -- it talks about copyright holders "being robbed of the fruit of their efforts", and seems to give guidelines for better evidence collection practices for future litigation...

  3. nice to see the gov's are not complete idiots by downsize · · Score: 4, Interesting

    or maybe CAN's official's palms are not as well greased like there are here [US].

    RIAA (and MPAA) need to get some criminal proof so they can use subpenoa's, otherwise, just pointing and saying 'gimmie' is not going to make the courts jump on their side.
    P2P does not appear to be dying, as long as you lump bittorrent under that umbrella.

    I'm suprised more people are not using services like http://fastmail.fm/ and http://www.shinyfeet.com/file sharing (well fastmail does not have sharing, but you can put small files into a public folder - shinyfeet is unlimited space/storage but no public, must be shinyfeetshinyfeet)
    but I guess those services are too much like the old napster.

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  4. Re:Consider immigration to the north... by Zeebs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Take up winter sports(complaining about winter is the most popular). I'd rather pay the tax and get the healthcare and education system over keeping the money and watching civilization slip quickly out of view. If we could only peirce the corporate veil and remove coporate personhood all would be well.

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