Canada's record industry loses; ISPs win in music downloading lawsuit

Much more on this later — I'm putting together items for tonight's newscast on this — but the Canadian Recording Industry Association's attempt to force ISPs to turn over customer information that would help CRIA sue what it alleges are illegal music downloaders has failed. A Federal Court of Canada judge handed CRIA a shutout, in a ruling which says CRIA provided no evidence that what Kazaa users and others are doing is illegal. Read for yourself here. It's fascinating. 

 

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