The CRIA, Canada’s version of the RIAA, recently suffered an ignominious and embarrassing defeat when it failed to convince a Canadian federal court that online file-sharing is illegal and is “devastating” the multibillion-dollar music industry. Having fallen flat on its face, the Canadian Recording Industry Association now is trying to pull itself up by its bootlaces, claiming “a significant majority of Canadians disagreed with the recent Federal Court decision which suggested that it is not illegal to upload music files on the Internet.”
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Big Music’s Climate of Terror and the Media Response
Posted by: Jon Newton May 12, 2004 06:00 AMThe CRIA, Canada’s version of the RIAA, recently suffered an ignominious and embarrassing defeat when it failed to convince a Canadian federal court that online file-sharing is illegal and is “devastating” the multibillion-dollar music industry. Having fallen flat on its face, the Canadian Recording Industry Association now is trying to pull itself up by its bootlaces, claiming “a significant majority of Canadians disagreed with the recent Federal Court decision which suggested that it is not illegal to upload music files on the Internet.”