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CRIA is governed by a board of directors who are elected annually by CRIA members. To be eligible for election a candidate for the board must be among the chief executive officers of member companies of the organization. Graham Henderson (Universal Music Canada) is the current president of the CRIA. Chairman of the Board redirects here. ... “Chief executive” redirects here. ... Graham Henderson is a Canadian lawyer and the president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, a lobby group for a number of major record labels in Canada. ...

Legal actions

On February 16, 2004, the CRIA applied to the Federal Court to force five major Canadian internet service providers — Shaw Communications Inc., TELUS Corp., Rogers Cable, Bell Canada's Sympatico service and Quebec's Videotron — to hand over the names of 29 people accused of illegal filesharing. Only Videotron supplied the information. ^{[citation needed]} is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Federal Court of Canada, more properly known as the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, is the court system set up by the Canadian national government to resolve disputes that arise under the national governments jurisdiction. ... “ISP” redirects here. ... Shaw Communications Inc. ... TELUS (TSX: T, NYSE: TU) is a Canadian telecommunications firm, the countrys second-largest telecommunications carrier after Bell Canada, with C$8. ... Rogers Communications Inc. ... Bell Canada Enterprises (TSX: BCE, NYSE: BCE), legally BCE Inc. ... Bell Sympatico, originally and frequently called Sympatico, is the consumer-side Internet service provider division of Bell Canada. ... Vidéotron Limited is an integrated communications company active in cable television, interactive multimedia development, video on demand and Internet access services, serving Quebec, Canada. ... For other uses, see Law (disambiguation). ... File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ... Vidéotron Limited is an integrated communications company active in cable television, interactive multimedia development, video on demand and Internet access services, serving Quebec, Canada. ...

On March 31, 2004, in the case of BMG v. John Doe, Justice Konrad von Finckenstein of the Federal Court of Canada ruled that making music available for download over the Internet was not equivalent to distribution and was thus noninfringing. ^{[citation needed]} The Justice compared the file trading activities to having a photocopier in a library room full of copyrighted material and wrote that there was no evidence of unauthorised distribution presented ^{[citation needed]} . However, this ruling was overturned on appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal, but the request to disclose the downloaders was still denied. ^{[citation needed]} is the 90th day of the year (91st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... BMG Canada Inc. ... The Federal Court of Canada, more properly known as the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, is the court system set up by the Canadian national government to resolve disputes that arise under the national governments jurisdiction. ... The Federal Court of Canada was the court system set up by the Canadian national government to resolve disputes that arise under the national governments jurisdiction. ...

The Copyright Board of Canada earlier that year had included downloading music in the list of "private copying" activities for which tariffs on blank media applied. (Private copying is the act of copying music for personal use from a noninfringing source, and is itself noninfringing.) ^{[citation needed]} That made it extremely unlikely that downloaders could be successfully prosecuted, leaving only the possibility of acting against uploaders, those supplying the works to others on the networks. ^{[citation needed]} The Copyright Board of Canada is an economic regulatory body empowered to establish, either mandatorily or at the request of an interested party, the royalties to be paid for the use of copyrighted works, when the administration of such copyright is entrusted to a collective-administration society. ... A tariff is a tax placed on imported and/or exported goods, sometimes called a customs duty. ...

The CRIA has also threatened legal action on other occasions. For instance, on September 27, 2007, the CRIA sent a letter to Demonoid threatening legal action (copyright infringement), despite the fact that Demonoid does not host copyrighted material - merely torrents facilitating the downloading of copyrighted materials. ^{[citation needed]} is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... For the metal band, see Demonoid (band). ... BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution tool written by programmer Bram Cohen which was debuted at CodeCon 2002. ...

Demonoid shutdown

On September 28, 2007, the BitTorrent tracker Demonoid went though a brief downtime. Subsequently it was found that the CRIA had threatened legal action and as such Canadian users are now being blocked to prevent legal action. Most Canadian IP addresses must now use a proxy server to access Demonoid as the website blocks traffic from Canada to prevent any further threats from CRIA. ^{[citation needed]} A BitTorrent tracker is a server which assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol. ... For the metal band, see Demonoid (band). ... In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) which services the requests of its clients by forwarding requests to other servers. ...

The CRIA also threatened the people renting servers to Demonoid, proving that they are whores.

Second Demonoid Shutdown

On November 08, 2007, the CRIA forced the closing ^{[citation needed]} of Demonoid by threatening the company from whom they are renting their servers. The site was left as a blank page with a short statement written on it: November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... For the metal band, see Demonoid (band). ...

"The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding."

Demonoid's return is considered to be immanent. ^{[citation needed]}

Album certifications

The CRIA certifications for albums are:

• 50,000 units: Gold
• 100,000 units: Platinum
• 1,000,000 units: Diamond

Note: Multi-Platinum refers to how many times the album has reached 100,000 units sold. For example, a record that has gone 29x platinum has sold over 2,900,000 units.

See also

• Canadian Private Copying Collective
• RIAA

The Canadian Private Copying Collective is a Canadian non-profit/non-government organization created in 1999 to collect and distribute private copying royalties. ... The RIAA Logo. ...

External links

• Canadian Recording Industry Association Website
• London Free Press article on the decision
• Full text of the decision (PDF)
• CBC: CRIA wants tougher internet piracy law in Canada
• CRIA Falling Apart

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