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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Fuck yeah. Among other things, the worrying about the OiNK takedown can end now for everyone up here in Canuckland =)
…now it’s off to ?cd for my nightly lookaround…
it doesnt change the fact that most Big ISPs here are using traffic shaping.
[quote comment="210862"]Dave,
It’s obvious your films are probably shit and no one is into them anymore hence no sales. Films have always been a risk and usually lost money even before the internet came along. One day you make a movie that everyone loves about a topic people are interested, next you make a similar movie and people have moved on and it bombs.
I don’t see the big movies which are half decent pulling in a loss and which people have a hell of alot more interest in pirating than anything you would have produced. How about you dont blame P2P but rather your groups lack of talent in producing a solid product that people want and consider good enough to pay for. Just because you have a biased view of how good and solid you think your film is doesn’t mean that is what people want.[/quote]
[quote comment="210898"][quote comment="210862"]Dave,
It’s obvious your films are probably shit and no one is into them anymore hence no sales. Films have always been a risk and usually lost money even before the internet came along. One day you make a movie that everyone loves about a topic people are interested, next you make a similar movie and people have moved on and it bombs.
I don’t see the big movies which are half decent pulling in a loss and which people have a hell of alot more interest in pirating than anything you would have produced. How about you dont blame P2P but rather your groups lack of talent in producing a solid product that people want and consider good enough to pay for. Just because you have a biased view of how good and solid you think your film is doesn’t mean that is what people want.[/quote][/quote]
Obviously you nothing of the film finance world or you wouldn’t have made comments on Studio Films not reporting losses. If you had any idea as to where the funding came from for big picture studio “marketed” films you’d also keep quiet. As to my films, like I said earlier…they all made money and some have won some pretty cool festival awards.
I was just asking a few people if they had a suggestion. Your lack of knowledge proves to me that you are at best, an average respondent to these blogs and perhaps a real education as to how a film is made, where the money goes, who gets paid and who does not is needed.
“I don’t see the big movies which are half decent pulling in a loss and which people have a hell of a lot more interest in pirating than anything you would have produced.”
This quote defines you as an idiot…period. Anyone else who would like to learn how big films get made drop me a line….ERR…you can take a seat at the back of the short bus with the rest of the numpties.
Poor America faces some major changes I read:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7068964,00.html
The Guardian reports US Congress is about to change “privacy”.
Donald Kerr states:
“Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information…”
I’m sorry for you guys in LobbyLand.
Finally they started using theyr brains, sad that was after demonoid was shutdown.
What a great “just fuck it” attitude they have
They might be doing it for the wrong reasons, but hey, at least they’re doing the right thing. It’s high time people smartened up and stopped all this ‘intellectual property’ garbage, it doesn’t make sense either philosophically or economically. Hopefully the digital age will help us get ourselves out of this primitive quagmire of patents and copyrights.
Seeing as downloading copyrighted material in Canada is legal this declaration is meaningless. I guess the RCMP need a lesson in copyright law.
Dave, well if going to a movie for 2 didnt cost over 40 dollars I wouldnt mind paying to see it. 10 dollars for tickets a piece. Comon, that is just greedy.
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[quote comment="209638"]I only downloaded for personal, medicinal use anyway! :P[/quote]
/signed
[quote comment="209723"]How does copyright violations on medicines hurt consumers?
Doesn’t it mean more people can afford the medicine they need…[/quote]
People sell literally fake medicine. It’s very dangerous.
to Misledhope
I wish I could say that ;(
I wish that the police would say the same in my country
Refreshing, frank, common sense attitude. Canada just leveled up. :)
About tanj time someone realized that. Hopefully the US will follow suit, ’cause what’s going on now is just ridiculous.
Go Canada Go!!!
Thats a step in the right way…
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