some weird quirk with Eudora.
Anyhow here's the text again:
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Online music swapping legal: court
Last Updated Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:24:32 EST
TORONTO - Individuals who share personal copies of music files on the
internet are safe after a Federal Court rejected a motion on Wednesday that
would have allowed the music industry to sue them. Justice Konrad von
Finckenstein said the Canadian Recording Industry Association hadn't shown
copyright infringement by 29 people who had allowed their music files to be
uploaded. Making files available in online, shared directories is within the
bounds of Canadian copyright law, von Finckenstein ruled. "No evidence was
presented that the alleged infringers either distributed or authorized the
reproduction of sound recordings," von Finckenstein wrote in his 28-page
ruling. "They merely placed personal copies into their shared directories
which were accessible by other computer users via a P2P service." <p The
Canadian Recording Industry Association last month asked the judge to order
the country's largest internet providers to release the names of 29 people
who share copyrighted music through music swapping networks such as Kazaa,
Grokster and Morpheus. The music industry wants to shut down internet file
sharing of music, blaming it for plummeting sales of compact discs. Last
year, the recording industry in the United States began going after people
who share music online. The Recording Industry Association of America has
sued about 400 individuals in the U.S. for allowing others access to song
files. Several people have settled out of court for about $3,000 US each. On
Tuesday, the recording industry sent warning letters or filed charges
against 247 people in Denmark, Germany, Italy and Canada.
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larry
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Fwd: take that RIAA
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> This is not the first time that you've either posted a
> forward or the like and the text was 'removed'. I'm betting
> that the text your sending is ONLY in the HTML portion of
> your post and not in the text portion. As the lists only use
> the text portion, we get stilted posts from you.
>
> >From one of my Canadian friends:
>
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