Copyright Law

Canadian Music Industry: 'Copyright Laws are So Out of Date'
Responds to recent efforts by BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay to have courts declare the site legal or illegal once and for all. The case of the isoHunt BitTorrent tracker site against the Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA) revved up late late week and the CRIA already has some choice words to describe being on the defense side a of file-sharing case "This is man bites dog," said CRIA lawyer Richard Pfohl, about isoHunt taking the offensive...

isoHunt: 'Copyright Infringers Aren't Wrong, the Law Is'
Gary Fung, founder of the BitTorrent tracker site, shares his thoughts on copyright law and its need for reform in an age where the Internet allows society to freely share ideas and thoughts with one another It was about two months ago that Gary Fong, founder of the popular isoHunt BitTorrent tracker site, decided to go on the offensive by suing the Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA) so that courts could clarify the site's legality once and for all...

Canadian Music Industry: Copyright Laws are So Out of Date
Responds to recent efforts by BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay to have courts declare the site legal or illegal once and for all. The case of the isoHunt BitTorrent tracker site against the Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA) revved up late late week and the CRIA already has some choice words to describe being [...

Manitoba Music Industry Association Shuns CRIA Stance on Copyright
It may be history repeating itself. When CRIA pushed for Bill C-60, many Canadian labels who were, at the time, members of CRIA, broke away from the organization, saying that they were against suing music fans and against the blanket ban on circumvention...

TorrentSpy Gone, Next Up, IsoHunt
In other Torrent news, TorrentSpy shut down, beaten down by litigation by the MPAA. The issue of whether search engines can be held responsible for copyright infringement will come in the MPAA's litigation against IsoHunt, another Torrent search engine...

Canadian bittorrent index site asks court if it is legal
A Canoe tech article says that the owner of the isohunt search engine for bitorrent files has asked the BC Supreme court to rule on whether it violates the copyright Act. Seems that the Canadian Recording Industry Association has demanded that he take down the links - so rather than waiting for them to take action, [...

What.CD, SumoTracker, BTMon, and FullDls Targeted by CRIA
MoxioColo, the ISP for each of the BitTorrent tracker sites, was recently served with cease and desist orders. It looks like things are heating up again in Canada for BitTorrent tracker sites and their users with recent news that Moxio Colo, the ISP for a number of major BitTorrent tracker sites including: What...

TorrentSpy Order to Pay Big Bucks for Piracy
TorrentSpy's damages to the MPAA come in at a whopping $110 million. Trying to destroy evidence didn't help their case. More details here. Now on to the isoHunt case.

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Demonoid Tracker Back Online, Now Hosted in Malaysia
Site still down, but something seems to be brewing at the once popular BitTorrent tracker site. It was last November that a Canadian ISP caved to pressure by the Canadian Recording Industry Association(CRIA) and discontinued the rental of servers to the very popular Demonoid BitTorrent tracker site...

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