The Canadian Recording Industry Association was back in court yesterday in a bid to overturn the verdict of Judge Konrad von Finckenstein who back in Mar said that the country's existing copyright laws did not make the uploading of music files to shared folders on home computers illegal. That decision essentially gave Canadian consumers the green light to carry on using P2P services like Kazaa.
If nothing else, Finckenstein's decision stopped the CRIA from forcing the country's main internet service providers from revealing the identities of customers the record labels reckon are guilty of largescale copyright violation. The CRIA reckon that decision was an incorrect interpretation of the law, and hope the appeal courts will overturn Finckenstein's ruling. Whether they will succeed remains to be seen, although if the courts once again go against the record labels certain Canadian politicians are keen to alter copyright laws in their favour.