actually with the Canada thing.. it was the courts telling the RIAA etc that laws are already inplace to enforce copyright, they were not going to allow the courts to be choked with this (they have more important cases to deal with), if you want to take the sharers to court - use the laws in place already we're not changing them / making new ones and get out of my court room you horrible little oik. cutdown version : the Canadian Courts told the music industry follow the laws in place. they would not. Courts told them, or else. music industry went off to sulk. upshot. P2P is a legal grey area in Canada, but only with music. at this time, you can't really be sued fo sharing. Software etc is still a no no. (quite right)