Leathal
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| RCMP tolerates piracy for personal use in Canada.
Not sure if anyone has seen this yet?
RCMP Tolerates Piracy For Personal Use
Posted on 11.11.2007 at 20:47 in Tech News by Mr. X
Canadian Police Tolerates Piracy For Personal Use 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. 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.
If you have not already read this from torrentfreak, here’s the copy of it at rlslog. Sorry if this is too much tech news for today but this time it was good news for once 8) . We have studies proving downloading promotes CD sales, we have levies on blank media and mp3 players. Now with the official reports they confirm with common sense.
Leathal |
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| I'd take anything the mounties have to say these days with a grain of salt.
Although that it does make sense that they don't have the time or resources, but I wonder if they'll turn a blind eye to unsavoury practises from such groups as the CRIA (or whatever replaces it) |
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offspring07
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sbrook
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| offspring, no, that's not quite true. A judge has struck down copyright cases related to sharing MUSIC files. That doesn't make downloading video or software legal at this time. Most people have assumed that if music is legal, then so is video and software. Moreover, it's only personal use from sharing that was permitted. You still can't sell, or broadcast material you've downloaded. That's definitely still a copyright violation. |
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