CRIA Files Massive Canadian Suit Against IsoHunt

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Submission + - CRIA Files Massive Canadian Suit Against IsoHunt (michaelgeist.ca)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 14, 2011 @02:20PM

An anonymous reader writes: After claiming for years that Canada has lax copyright laws that can't deal with downloading, 26 record labels have secretly filed a massive lawsuit against isoHunt. The suit was filed three weeks before Canada introduced the Canadian DMCA, yet the industry did not disclose the suit and regularly claimed it was powerless to do anything about the site.

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