The Quebec Superior Court has issued an injunction ordering Canadian company Quebectorrent.com Inc to close down its P2P file sharing operation which, the record industry argues, is used for the illegal distribution of unlicensed music.
The court ordered the company's Sebastien Brulotte to "cease operating the Quebectorrent website and any other website of a similar nature regarding the sharing of files and the release, upload, download, communication to the public by telecommunications or distribution of copies of any sound recording".
As previously reported, the Canadian courts have not been overly generous to the record companies when it comes to fighting P2P file sharing, with judges often saying Canadian copyright law is too ambiguous on the topic for clear judgements to be made one way or the other.
A previous attempt by Quebec record label trade body, the Association Québécoise De L'industrie Du Disque, Du Spectacle Et De La Video, to close down Quebectorrent.com through the courts was unsuccessful. As lobbying of political types to make copyright laws clearer on P2P continue, they will take heart at the latest ruling.