Does CRIA go after downloaders as aggressively as the recording industry in America?
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
mlauzon writes “The RCMP announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use (Google translation). Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers, such as copyright violations related to medicine and electrical appliances, instead of the cash flow of large corporations. Around the same time that the CRIA successfully took Demonoid offline, the RCMP made clear that Demonoid’s users don’t have to worry about getting prosecuted, at least not in Canada. ‘Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted,’ Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the RCMP, said in an interview. ‘It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it.'” Canadian Police Tolerates Piracy For Personal Use Written by Ernesto on November 11, 2007 The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their prior
