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With Microsoft Corporation publishing a study this week that revealed kids below the age of 16 are the demographic most attuned to the illegal gain of online file sharing, the peer-to-peer (P2P) market has suffered a legal blow to the solar plexus in Canada, where a court has come down hard on one particular file-sharing outlet.
Court ruling brings the curtain down on P2P via QuebecTorrent. Image: Nickleford/Flickr.
More pointedly, a court in Quebec has sided with trade group complainants representing the Canadian music and media industries and ordered the immediate closure of music and media file-sharing torrents on Web site QuebecTorrent.com, reports Mediacaster.
Following the Quebec Superior Court’s ruling, non-profit music and television industry organisations ADISQ and APFTQ were granted an order of permanent injunction against QuebecTorrent, effectively forcing the online service’s full operational closure.
According to the accusations put forward by ADISQ and AFPTQ, QuebecTorrent was knowingly allowing its service users to illegally share copyrighted music, television shows and movies made by legitimate media producers based in Quebec and also across Canada.
The court’s written decision specifically orders the immediate closure of QuebecTorrent’s media torrent streams and also instructs any and all parties involved with the running of the site “to refrain from being involved in any website using the bittorrent technology, peer to peer, and any other technology allowing the download of any work protected by copyright.”
Clare Samson, president and CEO of trade group APFTQ, which represents some 130 television and cinema producers spread throughout Canada, commented that the court’s decision “allows us to defend the legitimate interests of our members and all beneficiaries concerned, in respect of copyright and contracts signed between producers and artists in the sector Audiovisual.”
While stating that it will not appeal against the decision but fully comply with the court’s ruling, QuebecTorrent has insisted it was never its intention to violate media copyrights and it has also called upon the Canadian government to amend Internet torrent and P2P laws that it believes are “outdated and patently non-adapted to current and modern technology.”
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