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.
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–The police simply >does not< have the time nor the resources to go after filesharers.–
You should change it to, “Do not”.
Check out my torrent site and if you like you can do a story on it. :D
My site is plenty of torrents dot com.
heh, finally, it seems that they’re realizing some people just won’t resort to buying CD’s because they can’t dl them by p2p…wise choice, for sure.
i actually just bought two cd’s even though i first got them from p2p…i wanted to get the real cd, not just the files
bravo!
acbocbas
[quote comment="209665"]yea guys we’re better off keeping most these comments on a down low.. especially with whats going on in America right now.. poor guys is all i can say. hope they help themselves before it’s too late.[/quote]
wait whats going on in america? i’m american and i have no idea what your talking about..
[quote comment="215536"][quote comment="209665"]yea guys we’re better off keeping most these comments on a down low.. especially with whats going on in America right now.. poor guys is all i can say. hope they help themselves before it’s too late.[/quote]
wait whats going on in america? i’m american and i have no idea what your talking about..[/quote]
Probably me, and no, i’m not trying to be funny.
what is http://www.btguard.com/? U try that?
It would seem that the point is that of international copyright law since bit torrent effects more than just canada and that collection of yanks known as the cria. international copyright law states that anything may be copied in part for personal or educational use. since bit torrents only copy a part of a file from any one person down loading or uploading is not a crime. thus the trouble with enforcement and conviction.
from nottingham.
yeah! lets go to Canada!!!w00t!
i’ve been to canada. it’s ok to visit. and you can pirate anywhere in the world, including the place where all the pirated material is coming from: the us of a.
this article is typical, however, of nonsense pro-’sharing’ journalism; they ‘know’ pirating has no effect on sales? please. if you hate the RIAA/MPAA/Software protection poeple, don’t buy or use their fucking products, or just admit you copy files cause you don’t like spending money for something you can get for free.
Go Canucks!!!!!!!!!!!
Good to hear. Finally I can sleep at night without worry of the RCMP breaking down my door and searching through my hard drive and cd/dvd’s
Hmmm sounds like uploading is not quite legal according to one post. I’ll have to keep seeding though It’s each our our own responsibility to keep the files moving. I AM CANADIAN and no freekin’ leecher
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