Voltage Pictures v. John Doe and Jane Doe

An Ontario Internet service provider has been ordered by the Federal Court of Canada to identify about 2,000 customers suspected of illegal downloading and copyright infringement, but the court took important steps to ward off “copyright trolling”—a practice in which copyright holders threaten a large cohort of Internet users, many of whom are often innocent, unless they pay a settlement fee.

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