Sunday, November 11th 2007
Canadian Police Will Not Hunt Down Demonoid Users; Will Tolerate Piracy
In a stunning turnaround from the staunch anti-piracy position the CRIA has against Demonoid, the Canadian police announced that they are not going to hunt down every Demonoid user. They are also not going to target the average pirate. Instead of focusing on every college student and old lady who downloads a song or two off of a P2P network, the Canadian police are going after organized crime/piracy, as well as piracy that affects the health and safety of citizens. In an interview with Le Devoir, Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the Canadian police, discussed the new Canadian stance on piracy. He said that chasing down every single pirate is tedious, time consuming, and generally fruitless. A very simple statement of the new Canadian view of piracy:
Source:
Torrent Freak
Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted. It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it.Torrent Freak discovered quite a few studies that show piracy as having a beneficial effect on the economy.
46 Comments on Canadian Police Will Not Hunt Down Demonoid Users; Will Tolerate Piracy
But still, better to keep your guard up and be wary of what you download, they may announce they won't target personal downloading. But if you download a bit too much then I think that you are more likely to be tracked now then before the CRIA made this useless lawsuit against the Demonoid server provider. I'm just so glad now that one countries Police force has made what is in my mind, a move in the right direction.
I love watching TopGear. We have only just seen the end of season 8 here in Australia, I don't want.. No, I can't wait 2-3 years to be able to see the newest episode.
I agree with others, instead of pursuing downloaders and torrent sites, the industry needs to concentrate on delivering products that aren't overpriced, and that are worth buying. That's the only thing that will lessen the effects of piracy. Continually putting out high priced garbage is what's killing them.
heh, if they can screw over a little citizen for life for downloading songs why do the owners only get so jail time.. not like the home user is some major criminally minded indevidual... usually they just cant afford to go buy all kinds of cd's and are in school elc.. than they get screwed for life and might as well turn to the underworld/crime.
Gun crime here in Canada has taken a more serious note in the juridical system, thier not putting up with it as much.. but yeah we shouldnt be so lenient at times with people who kill others and blame it on drugs, lifestyle elc.
Smart decision....They will never hunt down every demonoid user ever..;)
Thank god we still got some common sense up north!
Just give it some time the RIAA, will eventually fuck someone over for life, that will flip and blow up a building. Not something I want to see but it will happen.
Those that lust for greed will eventually be done in by it.
Of course, I have to deal with DRMs. So I usually just burn it all to CD and stop worrying :D.
Yet where are did all your hockey teams go!!!?!?
:(
Hehe
Sidney Crosby used to play hockey with a good friend of mine, hes from the same part of town that we live in (this place used to be "fairly" small). Im not much into the game though, I like extreme sports.