Canadian ISPs Send Thousands of Copyright Notices

An anonymous reader writes "The CBC reports that Canadian Internet service providers are passing along thousands of copyright infringement notifications to their customers. These notices are coming, not from Canada, but from US copyright lobby groups such as the Business Software Alliance under a system called notice and notice. Michael Geist comments that unlike the U.S. takedown approach, the Canadian system is proving effective while protecting privacy and free speech. Downloaders take the hint, and alter their behavior before they receive a more serious letter in the mail."

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Re:Altered Behavior

[mark-t]

Quite a lot... there are a lot of Canadian companies that are extremely interested in sucking up to the US, as the US is viewed by many Canadians as Canada's primary trading partner.

Canada's even officially following the US's DST change... all for the interests of "harmony".

I really don't know why they don't just slap a US flag on it and call it the 51st state already.