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CRIA Files Massive Canadian Suit Against IsoHunt

Posted by Soulskill on from the payable-in-hockey-pucks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After claiming for years that Canada has lax copyright laws that can't deal with downloading, 26 record labels have secretly filed a massive lawsuit against isoHunt. The suit was filed three weeks before Canada introduced the Canadian DMCA, yet the industry did not disclose the suit and regularly claimed it was powerless to do anything about the site."

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  1. Re:Aaaah. unbridled capitalism. by Elbereth · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Give me a break. And if these guys were distributed a closed source version of some GNU software or the Linux kernel, slashdot would be screaming for their heads on a platter. Engage in software piracy, and you're the little guy being persecuted by The Man.

  2. Re:Aaaah. unbridled capitalism. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ahhh unbridled piracy

    You can justify it with some hand wavy stallmanesque bullshit, brag about being anonymous, pretend its some sort of 'stick it to the man' crud, but at the end of the day, we know it's just arrogant tight assed self righteous pricks who expect everyone else to subsidise their entertianment.

    grow up you fucking moron