Canadian Recording Industry Goes After P2P Users

Txiasaeia writes "Taking its cue from its American counterpart, the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) has begun the hunt for music file swappers. Unlike the RIAA, the CRIA are trying to find 29 (!) swappers only who use either Shaw, Telus, Rogers Cable, Bell Sympatico or Quebec's Videotron. Some companies like Shaw are openly opposing the request, whereas others, like Videotron, are pretty much planning on rolling over once the paperwork is done. Videotron customers beware: they say that they're 'actually delighted that the CRIA is doing what it's doing.' Arguments in the case begin on Monday in Toronto."

You might remember me

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi. I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such popular Canadian albums as "Nothing But Rush: A History of Canadian Popular Music".

It's not so bad

[sdcharle]

Turns out they're only prosecuting if less than 80% of your pirated mp3s are not by Canadian artists.

Oh wait a minute, that is pretty bad.

the last laugh

[Anonymous Coward]

I will have the last laugh when my leeching brother with his damn bittorrents gets busted ! Finally I will get greater than 5Ks on my DSL link :-)

Oh happy, happy days :p

*Yawn*

[SuperBanana]

Taking its cue from its American counterpart, the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) has begun the hunt for music file swappers.

Next up: Sun rises, sun sets.

Anyone else getting really tired of reading about *IAA? We're all well aware of the issues involved, I don't really see the need for this to be front page material nearly every day.

Let's have some priorities, please. Like our daily SCO story...siiigh. It's times like these that I wish we had voting rights like Kuro5hin, because every morning I load slashdot, I have trouble telling whether it's actually new news, or the same 2-3 topics over and over.

29 Canadians

[laurent420]

"Working on behalf of major record labels, the CRIA is reportedly hunting for 29 Canadian customers from at least five different ISPs"

Damn! they're on to me and my 28 cohorts!

Re:You have to laugh

[tundog]

when you see an industry suing their customers, i can't wait till this spreads to other industries

You must be new here. You can pay your $699 on your way out.

Time for the slashdot two-step

[mumblestheclown]

Scenario 1A: Copyright holder uses police to go after copyright infringers.

Slashdot Response: "Why do the police have to do the **AA's dirtywork! This is blah blah blah corporate shills blah blah blah."

Scenario 1B: Copyright holder privately goes after copyright infringers.

Slashdot response: "Can you believe the nerve of these people. This is what the police are for! blah blah blah nazi stormtroopers blah blah blah."

Scenario 2A: New, obviously-designed-primarily-for-warez-pr0n-and-mp 3z-technology emerges.

Slashdot Response: "Technology is blameless! Go after the infringers, but leave technology alone!"

Scenario 2B: Infringers gone after.

Slashdot Response: "Can you believe the nerve of those people shaking down college students!"

Scenario 3A: Copyright is used to protect somebody else's intellectual property

Slashdot Response: Copyright has outlived its usefulness! Viva la revolucion!

Scenario 3B: the GPL is violated.

Slashdot Response: Hang em high!

Life in a mirror

[Srividya]

In India, Bollywood makes P2P servers for us.
In America, Hollywood attacks P2P servers for you.

I have doubts.

Re:Videotron

[democracy]

Don't start saying "We love you Quebec!" because we're different. Are you Don Cherry's brother?

Arghh! No more Strange Brew?

[scumbucket]

Damn! This means I can't download the movie Strange Brew along with Bryan Adams songs anymore!

Re:White flag

[democracy]

Are you Don Cherry's sister? From la belle province.

coincidentially

[Richthofen80]

isn't 29 the number of people in Canada who can actually get broadband?

I like my odds

[Zapraki]

Lies, damn lies, and statistics...

2001 Census, population of Canada: 31,050,700

2000 CyberTrends report, percent of Canadians using the net: 54%

Number of Canucks the dark ones are looking for to sacrifice at the evil altar of Music Industry Ineptitude: 29

So, 0.54 x 31,050,700 = 16,767,378

29 / 16,767,378 x 100% = 0.000173% chance of them getting to me

I like those odds.

As Eastwood so elegantly asked "Do you feel lucky?"

It's nice to be appreciated.

[Txiasaeia]

I liked my original title better:

2004-02-13 15:32:16 CRIA Seeks All 29 File Swappers in Canada (articles,music) (rejected)

It had a sense of irony and humour, y'know? Anyway, I really can't wait until they start handing out subpoenas. If I get busted (highly unlikely), I am *so* taking this to the courts! First of all, it's civil and not criminal so I won't go to jail, and second, we've got some fairly intelligent judges up here who would definitely be able to make a fair ruling on this case.

My defense: as soon as I heard that the CRIA was going to be following in the footsteps of their older American brother, I decided to never buy another CD and never download another MP3. This also includes refusing to buy music-related merchandise as well as concert tickets. I'm in my early 20's, so I've got many, many years of not purchasing music ahead of me.

Besides, if it's legal to download, then why shouldn't it be legal to upload? I mean, come on! The ONLY WAY you *can* download is if somebody sends you the file! Either prosecute both or neither!

gvt too busy to care?

[Anonymous Coward]

maybe the ruling Liberal party in Canada is a bit busy at the moment with public corporation scandals and an internal witch-hunt?

Re:Videotron

[Etyenne]

Typical French, "We surrender!"

Typical anglo-saxon bigotry.

Re:But the practice is illegal in the U.S.?!

[Deliveranc3]

Watching you techies trying to understand the dichonomy between the practice and intent of law is like watching a Lawyer try and install GenToo
:)

Re:But the practice is illegal in the U.S.?!

[skahshah]

Not only 70% of Americans thought there was a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, but 98% now think it is normal to ask to prove a negative (rarely possible).

Re:But the practice is illegal in the U.S.?!

[iantri]

Hi there.. sorry to intrude on your conversation, but...

Can you prove I'm not God? Well? Can you?

CRIA, RIAA and other acronyms

[Namarrgon]

Does anyone else think the Recording Industry Association of America missed an obvious acronym [reference.com] when they failed to name themselves the American Recording Industry Association?

Too late, Australia [aria.com.au]'s got it now :-)

Or maybe these guys [aria.org] just beat them to it...

Re:But the practice is illegal in the U.S.?!

[IchBinDasWalross]

God would have a single digit UID.