James Grimmelmann has a wicked April fools joke over at Lawmeme about the RIAA suing Google. I wonder how far that one will spread.

A Canadian judge has put a spoke in the gathering momentum of the IFPI's campaign of lawsuits against individual file sharers. He has denied the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) request to identify individuals alleged to be involved in P2P file sharing. He even declared file sharing legal in Canada, including uploading. "The mere fact of placing a copy on a shared directory in a computer where that copy can be accessed via a P2P service does not amount to distribution," he wrote. "Before it constitutes distribution, there must be a positive act by the owner of the shared directory, such as sending out the copies or advertising that they are available for copying." Expect an appeal from the CRIA probably faster than you can blink.