CRIA Smoking Worse Crack than RIAA

Up to now, the Canadian players in the digital music question have been more enlightened than our neighbours to the south. That’s changed, as the Canadian Recording Industry Association hasn’t gotten all fascist with their latest proposal in its battle against music file sharing:

Just as the U.S. experience has been riddled with errors, CRIA’s notice and termination proposal would cut off Internet access for entire families despite questions about whether there is even grounds for a copyright infringement claim, in addition to doubts over whether the party responsible for the file sharing is the subscriber, a family friend who used the computer without permission, or perhaps a stranger who accessed the family’s wireless Internet signal.

The article offers a very sensible alternative to dealing with ISPs and customers.