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A court case may drastically change the Canadian Internet landscape by making search engines such as Google and Yahoo illegal.
A case brought against the Canadian Recording Industry Association by ISOHunt Web Technologies Inc., is raising questions about whether search engines are liable for the sharing of copyright-protected content online.
The question before the B.C. Supreme Court is, if a site allows people to find a pirated copy of a song or movie, is it breaching Canadian copyright law?
Originally posted by jdub297
Although this hasn't got much press coverage, it won't take long for someone to try similar tactics in the US.
Remember the "internet bully" conviction last year?
And the ACTA Treaty, terms of which Obama has declared "a national security" secret and exempt from disclosure?
Are we seeing a piecemeal diminution of our 1st Amendment freedoms and restriction of the 'net?
Deny ignorance.
jw
www.ottawacitizen.com
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Originally posted by CaptainCaveMan
What I don't get about internet copyright infringement in its entirety.
Is how it is any different than doing it in real life?
You have private connections to other people, downloading something to watch it.
How is this any different than going to there house and watching there movie?
You still haven't paid for it, yet that is not illegal?
I believe these company's want control of the internet, purely for an additional profit medium.
There argument is always only lost revenue.
But if the person doesn't posses the income or money to pay for it in the first place.
Then it clearly was not lost revenue.
And because they didn't take an actual thing from them, they have lost nothing.
I think putting people in prison, due to a company's theoretical lost profits, is a massive scam.
And shows how the corporations have control of the government.