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WiFi Pirates
posted by mpawlo on Friday February 27, @09:25AM
from the who's-riding-your-waves dept.
Copyright Canadian Recording Industry Association has faced a new problem: identifying pirates using WiFi connections. as previously reported by Greplaw, the recording industry in Canada has launched a legal hunt for some thirty consumers it says illicitly share music files over the Internet. The Internet service provider Shaw Communications, Inc., has been asked to disclose names, but refuses.

If you have a wireless router for laptop computers, you don't have a chance of proving identity, says Michael Whitt, patent and trademark agent and technology group chairperson at law firm Borden Ladner and Gervais to CanWest News Service.

Read more in the story from CanWest.

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