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Canadian Court Maintains Right to Privacy 20

Posted by timothy from the keeping-little-junior-in-mind dept.
TufelKinder writes "The Globe and Mail is reporting a Canadian court's decision to '[uphold the] 2004 decision to maintain privacy rights of on-line music swappers.'"
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Canadian Court Maintains Right to Privacy

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  • Privacy (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Richie1984 ( 841487 ) on Sunday May 22, 2005 @04:32PM (#12606620)
    It's nice to see courts uphold a person's privacy, even if there is debate as to the morality of what they are doing. I do wonder how the MPAA/RIAA will react to this. Slashdot have already covered how America is trying to force the DRMA upon Canada and perhaps they will now step up their efforts? Or will this just further widen the gap between the American and Canadian governments, and cause more friction?

    • Re:Privacy (Score:1, Interesting)

      by paulwalker ( 883911 )
      Privacy is important indeed and this decision will have repercussions on the music industry especially as with modernisation people will have better internet connections, making big data transfer much simpler. How will the law evolve in the future when music/movie piracy will become so important....
    • who cares what the riaa thinks? this is canada. second, the morality is not in question -- a levy is imposed, and the recording industry was very supportive. yes, this may cause "friction". please note that the levy is only distributed for music, but other content producers have been lobbying for a piece of the pie (which i support - i can't share my audio books and tv shows yet)

      ratboy

  • Excellent. (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Travelsonic ( 870859 )
    Due Process and no-bullshit attitudes strike again. Way to go Canada!

  • In other news... (Score:4, Informative)

    by wsapplegate ( 210233 ) <wsapplegate@est.un.goret.info> on Sunday May 22, 2005 @04:35PM (#12606636) Homepage

    ... Another court has upheld the right for Slashdot editors to post dupes [slashdot.org] every two or three days, and not to be bothered with the "search" feature of their own Website</sarcasm>

  • It certainly is nice to be living in Canada these days. But seriously, do the laws in the US actually stop anyone from sharing music? At all? Like, yeah, it's great to know that here in Canada we're able to do it LEGALLY, but down there in the States, people still do it anyway, right?

    • Re:freedoms! (Score:3, Informative)

      by FidelCatsro ( 861135 )
      Am i right in thinking that Canadians pay a levy on blank CDs etc which is supposed to compensate Copyright holders for any infringment. If so then there is nothing to withhold .
      • Ah, but very, very few of us buy blank CDs. More than 40% of my schoolmates have iPods and the other 50%-60% have mp3 players, NOT CD players. We just don't buy many CDs, it seems.

        • Re:freedoms! (Score:3, Informative)

          by FidelCatsro ( 861135 )
          Yeah i see the notion was dropped from portable players

          A blank media levy was introduced in Canada in 1997, by the addition of Part VII, "Private Copying", to the Canadian Copyright Act. The power to set rates and distribute the returns is vested in the Copyright Board of Canada. The Copyright Board has handed the task of distributing the funds to the Canadian Private Copying Collective, which is a private organisation. The Copyright Board has retained the task of setting the rate of the levy.
          In Canada:
          Th

          • Ironically, a music Tax (ala BBC) was something I've been predicting for some time now as the only possible way for the record industry to go... (Especially with the advent of city-wide wireless - imagine a pair of headfones that link wirelessly to all the music ever produced...)
            • Its the only way to go ,We have too many hyped up pop crap that people buy in droves because of the marketing. If we leveld the playing field and let people decide what they liked(which could easily be seen by repeate download rates) then i dare say the music world would be better for it .
              The artists would get a more representive pay cheque at the end of the day aswell( they get screwed over now anyway , no matter how hip they are).

              • Perhaps the way to go is to pay artists for performances rather than recordings. As in, if you stop touring and sit home on your ass, you don't continue to get paid. Wow, what a revolutionary idea.

    • Re:freedoms! (Score:2, Interesting)

      by Joe Random ( 777564 )

      But seriously, do the laws in the US actually stop anyone from sharing music? At all?

      Of course. There are always people who are so frightened by the thought that they may be on the receiving end of a lawsuit that they seriously curb, or stop altogether, their file sharing. That many ISPs seem willing to reveal their users' identities simply to get the *IAA off their back simply adds to the FUD.

      And frankly, I don't see how the Canadian ruling will stop that. Based on what TFA said, it would seem th

  • If you were to read this turd [top40-charts.com], you'd think the courts ruled against file-swapping.

    International Recording Industry Hails Key Canadian Court Decision On Illegal File-Sharing
    ...
    IFPI General Counsel and Executive Director Allen Dixon said: "The decision confirms that ISPs must turn over the names of infringing customers; that data privacy rules cannot prevent copyright owners from taking action against infringement, and that unauthorized file sharing is not legal in Canada. We are delighted that the Court of

    • File Sharing is legal in Canada at least for Music. Everyone in Canada has paid for copyright usage. The reason is the regulators cited a long-standing rule in Canada, in which most copying for personal use was allowed. To repay artists and record labels for revenue lost by this activity, the government imposes a fee on blank tapes, CDs and even hard disk-based MP3 players such as Apple Computer's iPod, and distributes that revenue to copyright holders. However, if the recoding industry wins. They would
      • I agree. The original deal was made when blank CDs cost $35 a DISK, and worm drives were $5,000 each. The recording industry never figured they'd see sub $50 burners and blank dvds at $0.30 each.

        But that's their problem ... not mine, not yours. They made a deal, and now that conditions have changed, tough shit :-)

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