April 1, 2004

P2P Lawful In Canada

According to Toronto's The Globe and Mail, a federal court up north has ruled that peer-to-peer file sharing is lawful. "The mere fact of placing a copy on a shared directory in a computer where that copy can be accessed via a P2P service does not amount to distribution," concluded Justice Konrad von Finckenstein. Hey, this is a better reason than the Vietnam War to move to Canada, eh?

 Posted by glenn

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