Suhit Gupta
04-01-2004, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/business/worldbusiness/31music.html?ex=1396069200&en=dfd39558e198742c&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND' target='_blank'>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/business/worldbusiness/31music.html?ex=1396069200&en=dfd39558e198742c&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND</a><br /><br /></div>"The music industry announced legal action Tuesday against 247 people accused of illegal file sharing outside the United States, taking its war against Internet piracy abroad for the first time. Recording industry associations in Denmark, Germany, Italy and Canada have filed lawsuits or taken other legal action, aiming mainly at heavy users accused of offering a large number of songs online."<br /><br />In related news, a judge in a Canadian Copyright Court today ruled that file sharing legal in Canada. This according to this article (http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news<br />) from CNET (other articles can be found all over the web - <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/31/1847241&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=141&tid=158&tid=188&tid=95&tid=99">Slashdot</a>, <a href="http://www.mytelus.com/music/article.do?pageID=home&articleID=1563050">mytelus.com</a> articles to name a few). Clearly this was not going to be an easy issue to solve in the US alone, after all look at how divided a small (soon to be large :)) community like DMT is over this subject. But now, with different countries making judgements on the copyright law and the legality behind file sharing/swapping, perhaps contradicting those by other ones, the job is only going to get harder.