Comments on: IIPA: Canada is a Magnet for “Rogue” Sites and Persistent Pirates http://torrentfreak.com/canada-pirate-site-magnet-140210/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:45:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: zen /canada-pirate-site-magnet-140210/#comment-1213551 Sun, 18 May 2014 00:16:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=83605#comment-1213551 Canada does way too many favours for the US government for them to bother us about this. There are many places in the world where the US cannot go without bringing war, simply because of how aggressive they are both policically and militarily.

It was recently revealed that CSEC (Canada’s NSA) had been doing intelligence gathering for themselves and the US in nations that the US isn’t so welcome. It went as far and agents with feet on the ground in these places, and the secret installations of surveillance equipment. They never revealed what nations though.

Although Canada is directly above the US, we have no US military here, and never have. We work hand in hand with the US; get their protection as a massive ally, and get away with what we want pretty much. The US even has Canadian CSEC agents working in the NSA, and Canadians have always been stationed at NORAD headquarters in Colorado.

My point is that we get away with shit like this easily. This is nothing compared to some of the things the US has ignored from their own industries before when crying.

Canada is one of the few nations on earth where the US actually respects its independence on a deep level. The UK as well. Actually, the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand are all each others guard dogs when it comes to international politics. About the closest group of allied nations on earth.

]]> By: Bob Loblaw /canada-pirate-site-magnet-140210/#comment-1192471 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 06:26:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=83605#comment-1192471 I torrent from a Canadian based ip, but I’m not in Canada.
Go ahead and make it all illegal, we don’t care and will not buy your product when you prosecute and persecute us. “We” are your best customers, or used to be.
Good luck trying to arrest your best customers. It will not work out, but go ahead and keep fighting the good fight. Spend that money!

]]> By: realtorrent /canada-pirate-site-magnet-140210/#comment-1191946 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:26:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=83605#comment-1191946 canada sold out to the usa a longtime ago
more likely got a back hander in payment for the bill to go throu

but hey guess what MPAA, RIAA
say Canada a magnet for pirate sites but wait a second

you can download no problem in canada its the upload that is the problem

but wait a second again canada is a magnet for pirate sites

does that mean china is off the list now

what about the other so call sites like google yahoo and youtube

you dont see them getting sued do you

main reason why its a usa based company bad for business

]]> By: Anon1 /canada-pirate-site-magnet-140210/#comment-1191865 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 23:28:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=83605#comment-1191865 that’s why their sulking, Canada was reasonable and capped copyright settlements at $500 – $5,000, no multimillion dollar lawsuits for downloading a copy of Thomas the Train for your kid.

]]> By: ieo /canada-pirate-site-magnet-140210/#comment-1191790 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:21:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=83605#comment-1191790 What’s interesting though, and I’ve heard this several times, is that there are rumours that Photoshop is priced at $600 for a reason. Photoshop is supposedly extremely easy to crack and pirate in the first place so they can distribute their software easily to a younger demographic who likely won’t have the money for the software anyway. However, in doing so, this gets the younger demographic interested in digital design, and gets them comfortable solely using Photoshop in the first place. This way, Photoshop stays an industry standard even with free tools such as GIMP, etc. As more people become interested in digital design and as the younger demographic enters the design industry, they or their company will need to pay for the software and at that point Adobe can charge whatever they want and have people pay for it.

]]> By: expanse /canada-pirate-site-magnet-140210/#comment-1191343 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:25:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=83605#comment-1191343 I live in Canada. Most of the “legit” online services that i try to use are blocked for me because I live in Canada. So i download them through “less” legit services.

]]> By: Musicon HaidaGwaii /canada-pirate-site-magnet-140210/#comment-1190883 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:17:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=83605#comment-1190883 I envy your denial.

]]> By: sloth8 /canada-pirate-site-magnet-140210/#comment-1190630 Sat, 22 Feb 2014 22:49:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=83605#comment-1190630 have reg ppl been prosecuted?

]]> By: quawonk /canada-pirate-site-magnet-140210/#comment-1188236 Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:35:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=83605#comment-1188236 Yeah, that’ll stop people pirating it.

Idiot.

]]> By: spamthejabroni /canada-pirate-site-magnet-140210/#comment-1188235 Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:29:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=83605#comment-1188235 I say this should be settled by a tag team fight. Any three-five mpaa riaa dbags go toe to toe with Tie Domi and Rob Ford on crack.

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