March 31, 2004
P2P Legal in Canada
“I cannot see a real difference between a library that places a photocopy machine in a room full of copyrighted material and a computer user that places a personal copy on a shared directory linked to a P2P service.”
A Federal judge threw out an attempt by the CRIA, a Canadian version of the American RIAA, to force ISPs to disclose the identity of file sharers on their networks. This probably won't last, as the music industry will probably put huge pressure on our politicians to make it illegal, but hey, today the little guy won.
