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Additional sources.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/12/13/canada_oks_p2p_music_downloads/

http://p2pnet.net/story/385

http://www.drmwatch.com/legal/article.php/3290471

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/stories/scherrer20040413

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--In a ruling handed down on March 31, the Federal Court of Canada ruled that swapping songs on the internet for personal use is not illegal.

"Downloading a song for personal use does not amount to infringement," Justice Konrad von Finckenstein wrote in his decision. "I cannot see a real difference between a library that places a photocopy machine in a room full of copyrighted material and a computer user that places a personal copy on a shared directory."--
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Phantasms  Yagotta B. Kidding | 08/18/04
Thanks for that.  Yen_z | 08/18/04
Oh no!!!  Flablooie | 08/18/04
How does that address the stated problem.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/18/04
But DRM can't solve it  Fred Fredrickson | 08/18/04
There is no problem  Patrick Jones | 08/19/04
So they are just imagining these problems?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/19/04
What's your point?  voska | 08/19/04
They're manufacturing the problem, not imagining it.  Letophoro | 08/19/04
Got it backwards in Canada  voska | 08/19/04
Sources  Letophoro | 08/19/04
And ZDNET is incorrect  voska | 08/19/04
It will be interesting if it ever goes to court  voska | 08/19/04
Additional sources  Letophoro | 08/19/04
Yes  Patrick Jones | 08/19/04
So this is different from  Hanover Phist | 08/19/04
Problem, Unmentioned and unsolved  Update victim | 08/18/04
Microsoft rep says DRM can go too far...  Anton Philidor | 08/18/04
MS is really not in that business  j.m.galvin | 08/19/04
Looks like ZDNet took the day off.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/19/04
Additional sources.  Letophoro | 08/19/04
Oops, wrong location.  Letophoro | 08/19/04

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