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Saturday, 23 April 2005 |
Music industry back in court to fight pirates
CTV, Canada
Canada's record labels aren't giving up the fight to find out the identities of
29 people suspected of uploading vast amounts of music files. On Wednesday, the
Canadian Recording Industry Association began an appeal hoping to overturn an
earlier decision denying them the information.
The accused are charged with uploading files; that is taking official store
bought recordings and making them available online for file sharing. It is these
people who are in the crosshairs, and not the casual user who will download a
file from time to time.
If the identities of the 29 suspects are revealed, Canada's recording industry
could sue them to recoup money lost to free peer-to-peer downloading networks
like Kazaa or LimeWire.
The three judges hearing the panel want the CRIA to prove the lower court judge
made a mistake in interpreting Canada's copyright laws.
Last year, Justice Konrad von Finckenstein said he wasn't convinced with
evidence linking network pseudonyms to specific IP addresses.
The evidence came from New York-based anti-piracy company MediaSentry. They used
screen grabs showing a list of songs in a shared folder. But Internet service
providers countered MediaSentry's evidence, saying IP addresses couldn't always
be linked to a single computer.
Von Finckenstein sided with the service providers, saying, "It would be
irresponsible for the court to order the disclosure of the name of the account
holder of IP address 24.84.179.98 and expose this individual to a lawsuit by the
plaintiffs."
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