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CRIA Files Massive Canadian Suit Against IsoHunt
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."
Not very bright are you? Or the most obvious troll I have seen in a while.
This isn't like them going against Napster or anything like that, ISOHunt actually changed their site where you can't sort by type or anything like that anymore.
It infringes no more than Bing or Google now as all it does is catalog and search torrent files by name, leechers and seeders. It doesn't host or pick and choose them. I hope you never have to work on any jury or some innocent man is going to end up frying due to your ignorance.
Greedy record companies can't have it both ways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy#Canada
IIRC it was the Court of Appeals (second highest court) that ruled that sharing music was legal. The CRIA were scared to take it to the Supreme Court.
I believe in most countries the legislature can update the laws to work around judicial decisions, at least as long as it doesn't conflict with any existing bill of rights or in our case charter of rights and freedoms. Our charter of rights also has a lot of weasel wording, section 1, the reasonable limits clause (in practice the States have the same thing) and section 33, the not withstanding clause.
The notwithstanding clause allows the government (federal or provincial) to override any right or freedom for up to 5 years at a shot. Only seriously used for the Quebec Language sign law so far.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_One_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_Thirty-three_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
I don't know about Canada, but here (EU, Czech Republic) we pay the levy for hard drives, USB flash disks, copiers,... Except for blank paper, I believe they have it covered. So it's hard to feel quilty when your new hard drive comes "pre-paid".