Canadian Police Tolerates Piracy For Personal Use

[method77]

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.

“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.

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[Malicious Intent]

That is really sweet - especially since Canadians pay tax so they can copy for personal use.

[rainbowdemon]

Now if we can only get the Americans to feel the same way. I wouldn't mind paying a little extra for cd and dvd blanks if this were to happen here.

[Shawn]

I think that beyond the problem of targeting this many people they have the issue of "what to do once you know".

Piracy is still targeted.

A private individual breaks copyright law, not criminal laws. Until they profit from it there is no criminal matter to be considered.

[The Hunter]

Now if they would take the same stand on personal use of some other things. :rolleyes:

[CTC Command]

So are they going to let Demonoid back online?

*sits with arms folded, tapping foot.

[Shawn]

Demonoid wasn't a private individual.

The minute a site accepts donations there is the inference of possible profit.