Court sides with music swappers

Cabot writes “The Federal Court of Canada ruled Wednesday that Internet Service Providers can’t be forced to turn over identities of suspected music swappers, throwing a roadblock in the path of the recording industry’s efforts to crack down on the practice.
As part of his ruling, the judge found that simply downloading a song or having a file available on peer-to-peer software such as Kazaa doesn’t constitute copyright infringement.
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Slashgirl also notes Canada is going in the opposite direction in this area than most western countries.

April 1, 2004 by Uncategorized 0

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