Canadian Record Industry Presses ISPs in Court

An anonymous reader writes "'Internet service providers have neither an obligation nor, in some cases, the technical means to help the recording industry identify 29 alleged music pirates, a federal judge heard yesterday.' The article continues, 'Shaw Cable, the most defiant company among the pack, poked holes in CRIA's case and accused the music industry of planning an extended fishing expedition for the purpose of forcing individuals into costly settlements before cases ever get to trial. This is the same strategy used by sister organization the Recording Industry Association of America, lawyers argued.'"

An (almost) happy Shaw customer

[m0nkyman]

Makes me almost happy to put up with Shaw's mediocre mail servers.
GO SHAW!

Not a usual pirate activity...

[BlueCodeWarrior]

Well, they're obviously wrong.

Pirates don't go fishing, they go pillaging.

judge:NEXT!

Re:An (almost) happy Shaw customer

[Intocabile]

Real pirates use shaws amazing Usenet server. Arrr.

We all know what happens next, don't we?

[James A. J. Joyce]

ISP: "Look, it's not our job to scour our reams of data just so you can make up some dirt on our customers."
RIAA: "You're right...guess you'd better hand it over to us."
ISP: "No."
Court: "Yes."
ISP: "Fuck."

The reason is

[mabu]

Shaw is too busy spamming the rest of the world to care about cooperating with an investigation.

Re:wrong

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, since Google is apparently too difficult for you to use, allow me to enlighten you.

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is our constitution. It was signed into law by King Pierre in 1982, shortly before he was assassinated by Joe Clarke. Clarke enjoyed a breif stint as PM (kinda like a president, only with complete power), until he was dethroned by Brian the Black. Brian tried his best to destroy the will of the Canadian people, and he was deposed in a bloody coup lead by Jean Cretien. (Brian actually escaped the coup with his life, by setting up Kim Campbell as a puppet PM, just before the revolution.)

Words for the wise

[Hal The Computer]

Always remember:

Pillage first, then burn.

Offtopic, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't wait for the day a deaf man gets sued by the RIAA; or someone getting sued for sharing Jimi Hendrix.

Re:Ouch

[Zarn]

I wonder if the CRIA would accept a several Terabytes large tcpdump.

Re:note to mods, parent is funny

[xsbellx]

I would but the parent's facts are a little off.

King Pierre first obtained power in 1968 after a bloody internal power stuggle within the palace. This reign was interupted by a short period (June 1979 through March 1980) of insurrection led by Joe Clarke. King Pierre was then able to muster the proper forces and return to power until March of 1984. At this time, an squable within the royal family led to a distant cousin, John Turner, briefly (June 1984 through Spetember 1984) seized power.

Turner was violently overthrown in September 1984 by Brian Mulroney (some said he was Ronnald Reagan's bastard brother). Mulroney held power until June 1993 at which time tensions within the country had reached a boiling point. Mulroney, realizing his days were numbered, installed Kim Campbell as puppet leader.

Lady Kim was able to hold power for a remarkable 4 months until deposed in November of 1993 by Prince Jean Chretien, a close cousin of the former King Pierre.

Prince Jean was able to rule with an iron fist until December 2003 when he was deposed by Duke Paul Martin in a bloody internal power struggle whose waves are still agitating the normally placid Canadian politcal waters.

For details, please see this [nlc-bnc.ca] site.