Canadian Police Tolerates Piracy For Personal Use
Written by Ernesto on November 11, 2007The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations.
Around the same time that the CRIA successfully took Demonoid offline, the Canadian police made clear that Demonoid’s users don’t have to worry about getting caught, at least not in Canada.
According to the Canadian police it is impossible to track down everyone who downloads music or movies off the Internet. The police simply does not have the time nor the resources to go after filesharers.
“Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted,” Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the Canadian police, said in an interview with Le Devoir. “It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it,” he added.
St-Hilaire explained that they rather focus on crimes that actually hurt consumers such as copyright violations related to medicine and electrical appliances.
A wise decision, especially since we now know that filesharing has absolutely no impact on music sales. On the contrary, a recent study found that the more music people download on P2P-networks, the more CDs they buy.
Previously: Demonoid Shuts Down Again
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allthough the cops are not coming after the personal downloader
the CRIA and MPAA and RIAA are still hunting us.
I would like to know the cops stance on demonoid though….
but at least things are looking up :)
Long Live P2P!
Makes sense. What’s the point of spending resources on something minor?
Way to go Canada. Now the CRIA needs to back off and leave Demonoid alone.
Finally, the police in our country (i reside in canada) are using their brains. Its obvious they can’t track everyone.
GJ, now if only you would let demonoid have its servers back…
“Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted”
- fact is it was NEVER targeted by the police because “piracy for personal use” is an oxymoron
“It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it”
- wise words from a smart policeman, even if talking slightly out of his box, it is a welcome message to the **AA who are aggressively pushing for criminal sanctions against people who copy for personal use
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St-Hilaire explained that they rather focus on crimes that actually hurt consumers such as copyright violations related to medicine and electrical appliances
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- national policing of bad information that hurts people. now that is a good thing, state regulation rather than state interference
good reporting guys :D
O’ Canada
our home and native land,
to save the consumers,
and all their P2P rights!
with glowing torrent and crazy limewire
The true north strong and free!
from far and wide, O canada we download movies for thee!
O canada, we pirate movies for thee
O canada, we pirate movies for thee!!!
Sadly this doesn’t mean Canadian’s are safe. They can still be held accountable for illegal P2P/Downloading. It doesn’t mean the copyright holders wont be able to form their own ‘police-type-squad’ to track and then prosecute, it’s just the Canadian Police wont be doing the hunting for them.
Kyro, actually it does. Due to taxing of our cd’s & mp3 players the courts decided the copyright holders couldn’t go against us in court since they fought for those taxes. So the police were the only people left to go after us.
This is news? not really been this way for 10 years ever since mp3 trading became popular. Its not the police you have to worry about however it is the Lawyers that are going to sue you.
Who are the Canadian Police?
Typical!!! Remove the best torrent website and then say its okay to download off the net. Go to Hell!!
Another reason to move to Canada…
Is this even real? I can’t find a reference.
Canadian police = RCMP-> Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or in french the GRC -> Gendarmerie Royale du Canada. Think of them as the FBI. If it’s legal with the FBI then it must be legal with the smaller municipal police :P
According to the french article though l’ADISQ (A Quebec RIAA) won’t give up it’s fight… But meh, who downloads stuff from Quebec artists? :P
^36, there’s a link to the Devoir in the article, The Devoir is essentially the most serious newspaper you can have, it’s like the New York Times, without the bias…
Downloading for personal use has been legal in Canada for years now. This is just a statement made to reiterate the fact. Look up the case regarding “SONY BMG vs. John Doe”
This is the fundamental case that made downloading legal in Canada for years. So long as it’s for personal use.
Who is the Canadian police? The RCMP?
The RCMP is more interested in counterfeit DVD’s then me or you downloading some movies to avoid the crazy prices.
RCMP > FBI
Downloading for personal use sounds like weed for personal use…. i wish the govn’t would feel the same way about that like they do for file sharing lol.
possession of marijuana (for personal use) : $200
Downloading the Kanye album: Free
Lawsuit for Kanye album in the US: $100000
Living in Canada: Priceless.
Downloading music in Canada is 100% legal anyway and always has been, so what the f are they talking about?
The CBC reported that music sharing as been proven to actually increase CD sales, while in another report two days later detailing the debunking of Oink, it stated that file sharing has been the main reason for falling CD sales. Seems the CBC has some consistency issues.
That’s the most poorly written article I’ve read in a while!
Show me some credentials, or at least elaborate on “Canadian Police”.
hehe
What’s the big deal, in Canada you can’t be even be sued by a media company unless they can prove that you distributed the content to others, or were displaying it publicly in some manner.
Personal use of copyright material without distibution has never been a crime in the first place…
Sweet. Gotta love being in Canada
who is now moving to canada, Torrents, Social Health Care and cold weather See ya guys in a few weeks!
I am so sick of the states all for me mentality Euro countries got one thing right and that is you have to look more at the we then me but the states has so many people “Searching for the dream while stepping over each other without care” that they forget to just enjoy life. I am proud of some things in America but the politics and ME attitudes i am not.
almost makes up for not getting the iPhone…..almost
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