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. some good news that makes me feel proud to be canadian
buddy. dont be hating on us cuz we get free shit legally and you dont sucker. and what the fuck are you talking about? new ship? pirate?
^ Sorry but I wasn't really reffering the canadians as the people but more like to the CRIA for taking Demonoid down :(. and about the ship. I have to find a new good site where I can take illigal stuff of from it
my dad says, here in Canada, we were allowed to RENT SOFTWARE[like MS Office, MSwindows, PhotoShop so on...] just some years back. I was too young at that time. That was until THE fragging NAFTA ( North America Free Trade Agreement) came into affect. well, we still have FREE-tv from FTA receivers...heheheheh
but it is true that it is too hard to target everybody due to the amount of packets sent through each day and the possibility of encryption. it will take forever and ppl who ddl prob weren't gonna buy the cd anyway so it doesn't rele affect music sales. its just companies who sell ddled stuff are the ones which make money and are rele the ones which affect the profit gained by industries.
