the CIRA member record companies in the hot seat for ... copyright infringement

[Matt Price]

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 19:59 -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Michael Lauzon wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 16:29, Peter <plpeter2006-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> Were these not the people who were suing under age children and grannies for
> >> downloading music ?
> >>
> >> http://www.thestar.com/business/article
> >> /735096--geist-record-industry-faces-liability-over-infringement
> >>
> >> ^^paste url on 1 line
> >>
> >> This is not hypocrisy, it deserves a special new word to describe it.
> >>
> >>  Peter
> >>
> > 
> > No, you're thinking of the RIAA, the CRIA hasn't sunk that low to
> > start suing Canadians yet, plus it tends to be harder to bring a
> > lawsuit to court in Canada.
> 
> They have, they just didn't succeed. When I got a C&D from them, I 
> started doing research. Found that they had sued for the ID of suspected 
> file sharers, and the courts said they evidence was too weak to justify 
> the invasion or privacy.
> 
> It's the gov't (odd, I know) that is keeping CRIA in check, definitely 
> not their inner morals.

one more reason to take politics seriously...m

> 
> Madi
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