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While this may sound like an overreaction to the potential impact of imposing copyright liability on ISPs, please consider that the scope and scale of the liability would be as large and complex as the Internet itself. ISPs would be liable to all of the owners of rights in the more than four billion copyright works that are available on the Internet at any given moment. They would be liable for every poem, short story, news article, sound recording, musical work, computer program, photograph, audiovisual work, blueprint, database, sketch, performer's performance, scientific research work, essay, work of criticism, speech, political commentary, and cartoon that might be accessed by Canadians browsing the Web, whether or not any Canadian ever actually accessed any of those works.
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