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You're arguing like this is common practice. No one does this. It is common practice in China. Sadly, it is increasingly common elsewhere as well, and it happens often enough to warrant projects like Tor and Freenet. Be glad that it isn't a common practice where you live. Except Comcast isnt doing ...

Except this isn't about nations "mangling" packets. It's about enforcing copyright laws accross borders. Attempting to enforce copyright laws across borders equals "mangling" packets between nations. Whose responsibility is it to ensure that Canadian data packets which contain d...

There were some legal findings in relation to Napster and other recording-sharing services that found the opposite - the ISP is held blameless if the data are only temporarily stored on its servers (i.e. as part of the store-and-forward way the internet works) in direct to response to a request ori...

Local ISPs HAVE to import and transmit the material into the country in question. That is what they do, as ISPs. But they don't cause it to be transmitted, that's the client and remote server doing that. National carriers have no obligation to data packets, regardless of origin or destination. Go a...

4. The ISPs are actually the ones who import the copyrighted content into the country in question. Quite simply, no. the ISP is the local gateway to the backbone of the internet, linked through one or more tier I or II providers to get there. They don't import, transmit, or cause anything to happen...

Out of curiosity, has the Minister of Canadian Heritage been alerted to the invasion of European Union rights-seekers with regard to their demands on IMSLP's Canadian operations? While there have been some Canadian setbacks with regards to the sharing of performed music on the public internet with u...

In any case there's only the law of one country: the country where you distribute the music. That is, the country where the end user is sitting. It's not that cut and dried. If you look at it another way, IMSLP's servers only sends and receives information with its ISP, which is obviously in Canada...

I'm a long-time IMSLP lurker and hoped to have time to assist the project in some way for a while now. The recent events with UE are terrible and my thanks go out to Feldmahler for keeping it going for so long and putting so much work into the site, along with the other contributors and admins. I ju...