Internet service providers can recover some of the costs of helping movie companies and other copyright holders find illegal downloaders, the Supreme Court of Canada says. The decision could end up saving Rogers and other internet providers many thousands of dollars, but the Supreme Court said the appropriate fees should be decided at a future Federal Court hearing. In 2016 the Federal Court said Rogers was entitled to levy the fee but the decision was overturned the following year on appeal, prompting the telecom company to take its case to the Supreme Court. In writing on behalf of eight of the members of the Supreme Court, Justice Russell Brown noted Rogers undertakes an eight-step manual process to comply with such an order. But he indicated it was unclear how many of those steps Rogers must already carry out at no cost under the law as part of its routine functions.

Source: CBC News September 14, 2018 14:15 UTC