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Canada's Position on Net Privacy

posted by mattie_p on Saturday February 22 2014, @04:07AM   
from the not-that-different-from-america dept.

Absinth writes:

"Canadians who illegally download music, movies and other copyright material may no longer be able to hide from potential lawsuits.

In a groundbreaking decision released Thursday by Canada's Federal Court, the Internet service provider TekSavvy Solutions was ordered to release to Voltage Pictures LLC the names and addresses of more than 2,000 Internet users suspected of pirating movies. Voltage is a Hollywood production company that has made films including 'The Hurt Locker,' which won six Oscars, and the upcoming 'American Heist.'"

[Ed. Note] Apparently this is a dupe.

• Re:dupe Re:dupe (Score: 4, Funny) by bd on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:06AM

  by bd (2773) on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:06AM (#4749)

  Yeah, first dupe!

  Now if people start acting smug about low uid's
  I will finally be able to call this place home!

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• Re:dupe Re:dupe (Score: 5, Informative) by mattie_p on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:19AM

  by mattie_p (13) on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:19AM (#4752) Journal

  Get off my lawn, n00b! Hey, editor here. Yeah, I messed up. It has been a busy day. First I had like 3 cups of coffee. Then I was playing our idle rpg game all day on #irpg at our IRC server, irc.sylnt.us. Then I was trolling noobs.

  The fact is, with a completely different title I didn't recognize it. Congratulations to those who identified this error and pointed it out to us. Thanks for doing so, and thanks for reading. ~mattie_p

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  • Re:dupe Re:dupe (Score: 4, Insightful) by bd on Saturday February 22 2014, @06:22AM

    by bd (2773) on Saturday February 22 2014, @06:22AM (#4770)

    With a uid as low as that, you have been here long enough to know that you need at least 4 more cups of coffee.

    As an aside, I am utterly enjoying this site, it feels just like that other site did 14 years ago. Thanks!

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    • Re:dupe (Score: 1) by Foobar Bazbot on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:44PM

      by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:44PM (#4963)

      I am utterly enjoying this site, it feels just like that other site did 14 years ago.

      It's 2014; surely you can afford a color monitor.

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  • Re:dupe (Score: 5, Funny) by NCommander on Saturday February 22 2014, @09:33AM

    by NCommander (2) <mcasadevall@dev.soylentnews.org> on Saturday February 22 2014, @09:33AM (#4816) Homepage Journal

    Pfft, 2 digit UIDs are so just so new-school

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  • Re:dupe (Score: 1) by Foobar Bazbot on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:11PM

    by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:11PM (#4895)

    Poor form, mattie_p!

    You know we're supposed to wait till a 3-digit UID pops up thinking he's something special, then let loose, but you just had to jump the gun...

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• Re:dupe (Score: 5, Funny) by Lagg on Saturday February 22 2014, @08:28AM

  by Lagg (105) on Saturday February 22 2014, @08:28AM (#4795) Homepage Journal

  Back when I registered here way back in '2014 we were lucky to get 3 articles at all let alone a dupe! And we had to save our submission text to an editor in case it didn't go through since it probably wouldn't for the first try! And we did it up hill! Both ways!

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