• BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    Finally, something positive coming out of the Supreme Court!

    of Canada

    Ooooof course.

    Cries in 'Murican

  • OgdenTO [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    One thing I don’t like is that the opinions in the ruling suggest that and IP address is equivalent to an identity, which I’m not sure has been established nor makes sense

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      8 months ago

      I am not a lawyer, but as far as I understand it: it has been established Canadian law that your IP address is part of the right to privacy that you have as a person in Canada.

      It came from efforts by the RIAA and MPAA to get Canadian IP addresses through the courts, where they were rebuffed.

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      I think I remember it already being established that it doesn’t. It was one of the reasons (along with damages getting capped) why the piracy lawsuits never really caught on as a thing in Canada.