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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. Consider immigration to the north... by grumpyman · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...where weeds are legal, gays can marry and music is free!

  3. Petition for Users' Rights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Canadian government is planning on changing copyright law to take away many of our rights (luckily, the current minority government probably won't manage to do this).

    This petition "is a way of letting Parliament know that you want to be considered and that you don't want your rights to be abraded every time the music industry's profits slip a little." Please sign it if you're Canadian and agree with it.