Canada FTW

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:35 pm

Use the nuts!

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This is a great decision. Unlike the US police, here they'll not waste resources and time for stuff that benifits more then harms, so they can concentrate on stuff that harms more then benifits.

http://torrentfreak.com/canadian-police-to...-piracy-071110/

The 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.

Canadian Police Tolerates Piracy For Personal Use 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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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:23 am

Sensibility ftw.

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:41 pm

Media Defender to the rescue!! The police here in the US don't really go after the common music pirate either. All this means is that the CRIA is going to start pulling the same crap the RIAA is pulling over here, Hiring companies link Media Defender to troll p2p networks and other not entirely legal activities.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:58 pm

Lets hope thats not the secret plan, and that by not persuiing, they mean, not bothering period. Outsourcing is still persuing it.

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flowergirlajg · Post by **flowergirlajg** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:28 pm

CANADA IS SOO AWESOME, EH?

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scherzo · Post by **scherzo** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:10 am

good, non violent, and truly a civil action anyways, the police should focus more on other issues, it is absurd to think they would give this type of piracy priority when you can kiss all your possession good-bye if you had an actual break and enter.

fyi civil actions do not normally involve the police and the police do not enforce every law, ever heard of a police officer giving out a ticket if your employer violated Employment standards?

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