Canadian Court Denies Motions to Compel ISPs to Disclose Identities of Peer to Peer File Swappers.
Mondaq Business Briefing › Nbr. 2004, May 2004
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Canadian Court Denies Motions to Compel ISPs to Disclose Identities of Peer to Peer File Swappers.
Published in MLRC MediaLawLetter, April 2004
On March 31, 2004, Ontario Federal Court Justice von Finckenstein denied motions to compel Internet service providers (ISPs) to reveal the identities of 29 alleged "uploaders" of copyrighted musical works using popular peer-to-peer .(P2P) file-sharing programs, such as KaZaA. BMG Canada v. John Doe, No. T-292-04 (Ont. Fed. Ct.). In addition to finding that the evidence lacked the required reliability to justify invading the privacy of Internet us...See the full content of this document
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