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Links: Another Reason to Move to Canada
Posted by Steven Wu on Thursday, April 01 @ 01:22:20 EST File Sharing
In the '60s, it was the Vietnam War. Today, it's file sharing.

A Canadian federal judge has ruled that file sharing is legal in Canada.

In that recent case, the [Canadian] Supreme Court ruled that libraries were not "authorizing" copyright infringement simply by putting photocopy machines near books. The libraries were justified in assuming that their customers were using the copiers in a legal manner, the high court ruled.

[The federal judge] said the same rationale should apply to peer-to-peer users.

"The mere fact of placing a copy on a shared directory in a computer where that copy can be accessed via a P2P service does not amount to distribution," [the judge] wrote. "Before it constitutes distribution, there must be a positive act by the owner of the shared directory, such as sending out the copies or advertising that they are available for copying."

 
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by ILikePi on Thursday, April 01 @ 08:29:51 EST
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er, isn't the nature of P2P software such that placing a file in one's shared directory essentially "advertises" it by allowing others to find it there?


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Don't get too excited too soon (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, April 01 @ 13:47:35 EST
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