said by rednekcowboy:This from the Michael Geist link you posted:
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Canadians can also take greater advantage of fair dealing, which allows users to make use of excerpts or other portions of copyright works without the need for permission or payment.
That portion of the copyright law bypasses an cases that are brought to trial.
We are allowed to download and store backup copies of original content in Canada as well as download for private use according to the same link you provided.
So, with all that being taken into consideration, I don't even know how this suit didn't get thrown out of court. Before they should be given those names, they should have to prove that the use/download of the movie violated Canadian Copyright Law, which, according to the above statements, would be impossible.
What Geist is talking about in the quote you made is portions & excerpts.
Meaning you make a youtube video and in that youtube video you have a partial recording of Elvis (for example). Or an Explosion scene from whatever movie.
This is what an excerpt is. It's a copied and pasted scene type thing. Or maybe half a page copied from some book.
This is different than downloading an entire movie.
If the law allowed downloaded movies for private use (as what you are twisting it into), Canada would be celebrated around the Globe and news of this news found legal loop-hole would be on every torrent/warez site type thing.
But then again, per a post up above, I work for Canpire and the MPAA so fud is my forte.