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Originally Posted by photon
Nothing, at this point it's "legal" (meaning it hasn't been tested in court, but if they haven't tested it yet is it because they know they'd lose?).
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Yeah, it has been tested in Canadian court.
In a Supreme Court case it was ruled that libraries putting photocopiers in was not infringing copyrights.
Then the Copyright Board declared downloading for personal use was not infringing.
Then, in a Federal court case where CRIA was attempting to force Canadian ISPs to reveal the names of 29 users who were sharing files, Justice von Finckenstein denied the request saying if putting photocopiers in libraries was not infringing, then putting mp3s in a shared directory was not infinging.
So it has been tested in a number of cases.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/in...ing_music.html
Interesting, Justice von Finckenstein is now head of the CRTC.