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Canadian Case Raises Issues About Who's Really Sharing Music

Mike notes that the legal battle between the Canadian Recording industry and the ISP's is breaking new ground which could work against the industry's legal approach to fight music downloading.

Techdirt:Canadian Case Raises Issues About Who's Really Sharing Music

Contributed by Mike on Wednesday, February 25th, 2004 @ 08:06PM
from the need-more-proof? dept.
The Canadian battle over whether or not ISPs need to reveal the names of people who are being accused by the recording industry of sharing music is one of the first that actually raises the issue of proving who did the actual file sharing. While this has been brought up in discussions on the internet, it's the first time I've seen it actually raised during a file sharing related lawsuit. The recording industry can try to track down who pays for the connection - but that doesn't mean they know who actually did the sharing. In fact, the ISPs in Canada are specifically using the open WiFi example to point out that just about anyone could have been using a connection to share files, and it's wrong to accuse just the person who pays for the connection without any more proof that it was actually them.

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