The Ottawa Citizen reports that an Ottawa record store owner grudgingly pleaded guilty to infringing copyright for possessing about 100 infringing CDs out of a collection of 500,000 to a million recordings.
Ottawa Record Store Owner Pleads Guilty to Copyright Infringement
December 16, 2009
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If he thinks anything like me, he has all official cds except for a framed pirated set of the entire Metallica catalog 🙂
Charity of choice
“The joint agreement between the defence and the Crown gives Nolan three months to make a $1,000 donation to the charity of his choice.”
I hear the EFF and Wikipedia are accepting donations.
Where’s EFF’s Canadian counterpart?
I think I remember seeing a website for it somewhere…