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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Yay, glad to see someone using their common sense.
home sweet home
I’m glad to hear this.
It’s unfortunate that organizations like the CRIA are still able to intimidate sites like Demonoid into going down, though.
I’d suggest that anyone who wants to help should donate to quebectorrent.com - so far the only site that has chosen to fight the CRIA rather than give up. Although I don’t speak French, from what I can decipher from their front page, they need around $5,000 CDN to pay legal bills, and are at around 50% of that goal. Hopefully if they succeed, they can set a legal precedent in Canada for torrent sites.
I am enjoying living in Canada once again, d(^^,)b
Yay! Now all we need is a oink replacement, only for canadians but situated outside of canada…
Hell, I’m moving to Canada.
I’m on my way …
Awesome. I really didn’t think that they targeted people beforehand though considering downloading music for personal use is legal. Does this mean that uploading is no longer illegal as well? (Not like they did anything before anyway)
I only downloaded for personal, medicinal use anyway! :P
Well they’re the police, not the record companies themselves (RIAA, CRIA, etc.). The Record companies are the ones who like to pick on random file sharers…which doesn’t change anything.
And the only reason they do it is because they want to increase their profits. They don’t care about the artists, or how much exposure p2p gives them to millions of people who wouldn’t buy the overpriced CDs otherwise.
The battle is not with lawmakers (the police), and it’s certainly not the artists, it’s the record companies vs. the consumers. And they’ve approached it completely the wrong way.
Alright, what I like to see :D
Go CANADA! hehehe
They have finally seen the light.
Meh, has anybody ever been arrested for personal use? I can see piracy factories getting shutdown, but any single person?
The CRIA is trying use their “weight” to push cdn isps\hosts around..
I dont think the police ever cared. Unless your doing something incredibly stupid.
and what are they thinking about torrent index hosted in canada?
(not tracker)
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.
ok then, is demonoid coming back ??
Lets help http://oink.cd/
help them for what, are they planing to comeback?
time to pack ;D
Its About Time a country stands up for the consumer because with out the consumer these companys can’t servive the usa needs to grow some ballz and stand up for the comsumer like canada did for people it just don’t make sense don’t get me wrong i love the usa but sometimes it seems like they forget that they were chosen for the people by people
How does copyright violations on medicines hurt consumers?
Doesn’t it mean more people can afford the medicine they need…
“a recent study found that the more music people download on P2P-networks, the more CDs they buy.” thats what we’ve been telling them for how long (we meaning the warez scene). Lol. I love it. Im a Canadian xD
Hell! I need to move!
Canada ftw!
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