-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 April 2004 07:46 am, JoeHill wrote: > "The Canadian Federal Court has ruled that computer users who made music > available on the Internet could not be sued. The recording industry said it > would appeal the decision. > > Justice Konrad von Finckenstein ruled yesterday that the Canadian Recording > Industry Association did not prove there was copyright infringement by 29 > so-called "music uploaders." > > He said downloading a song or making files available in shared directories, > like those on the popular web site Kazaa, do not constitute copyright > infringement under Canadian law. > > "No evidence was presented that the alleged infringers either distributed > or authorised the reproduction of sound recordings," Justice von > Finckenstein wrote in his 28-page ruling. "They merely placed personal > copies into their shared directories which were accessible by other > computer users via a P2P," or person-to-person, service. > > He compared the action to a photocopy machine in a library. > > "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," he > said." > > Link: > > http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/01/1080544598902.html LOL, very genius indeed. Poor record industry. Yeah, why not? - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 10:44:10 up 2:49, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
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