From: Some@Guy.com   
      
   JF Mezei wrote:   
      
   > Yep. $22,500 for each song he downloaded and shared back in 2004.   
      
   A US case, one of the first (apparently).   
      
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   No one has been successfully sued in Canada for downloading music or   
   sharing it online. Most forms of music copying for "private use" are   
   expressly legal under the Copyright Act.   
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   Media reports such as this one throw around terms like "sharing",   
   "uploading" and "downloading".   
      
   Let's be clear here.   
      
   He was nailed NOT because of downloading.   
      
   He was nailed because his P2P client allowed others to *upload* from him   
   (as most / all p2p clients do).   
      
   Nobody would or could be similarly nailed for downloading from   
   file-lockers or usenet binaries.   
      
   And all of that applies in Canada too.  With one additional wrinkle -   
   the fees or levies applied to various forms of storage media designed to   
   be fed back into the music industry.  The very existance of such renders   
   any sort of legal action against p2p copyright violation murky and   
   un-tested.   
      
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