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RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers

Posted by kdawson on from the sigh-of-relief-eh dept.

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.'"

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  1. The reason? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was too hard to get the horses into people's bedrooms, basements, dorms, etc.

    1. Re:The reason? by plierhead · · Score: 5, Funny

      And the horses have a tendency to trample people's rights.

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    2. Re:The reason? by callmevinny · · Score: 5, Funny

      > I've always wanted to see a pirate and a mounty go at it.

      Arrrr, eh?

    3. Re:The reason? by chemindefer · · Score: 5, Funny

      It was too hard to get the horses into people's bedrooms, basements, dorms, etc. Not to mention getting horses into the internet tubes that connect them.
    4. Re:The reason? by Fieryphoenix · · Score: 5, Funny

      Can't believe I blew my own joke. Correction: Arrr, aye! Eh, Eh?

    5. Re:The reason? by MattHawk · · Score: 3, Funny

      Reminds me of a wonderful Canadian Pirate song - The Last Saskatchewan Pirate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_L9tXEwmc). There's even a verse with a mounty!

    6. Re:The reason? by hkmarks · · Score: 2, Funny

      They use horses in situations where motor vehicles would be impractical, such as special events like Canada Day on Parliament Hill, or patrolling parks. A mountie in dress uniform on horseback is partly for the tourists, but it also gives them a good vantage point and mobility.

      My uncle, on bicycle, was once chased down by a police officer (though I think Halifax municipal) on horseback. She stopped him for supposedly stealing squirrels from a park, though it was actually just our little dog sticking his head out of the bike basket. That was about 30 years ago, though this article implies they're still used.

  2. mount -t police /ca/royal by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Funny

    They won't chace Windows users because there's no mount. They will chase *nix users though.

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  3. Re:News Flash from our cute neighbors to the north by Elemenope · · Score: 4, Funny

    Northern Minnesota has been itching for an "incident" for 150 years. I don't think an abstract idea like "Mutually Assured Destruction" will deter an incursion. One photo set of a captured American partisan fighter being Labatt Blue-boarded and you've got yourself World War III.

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  4. Fucking Canadians by rastoboy29 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think you're cool 'cause you're all "rational" and stuff. 

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  5. Re:News Flash from our cute neighbors to the north by Torvaun · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know at least twenty people that would volunteer for a Labatt Blue-boarding.

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  6. Re:News Flash from our cute neighbors to the north by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    FFS, I said I was sorry.
    I won't eat the curry again.

  7. Sketchy Translation? by xrayspx · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it that hard to translate from Canadian to English?

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  8. Re:Unfortunately by CastrTroy · · Score: 4, Funny

    But Newfoundland doesn't have any computers, so we can ignore them.

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  9. Re:You forgot about China? by CaptCanuk · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm still disputing the Alaskan panhandle so that should put us back on top.

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  10. Horses don't discriminate ... by Marbleless · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... they trample on peoples lefts too ;)

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  11. Re:News Flash from our cute neighbors to the north by darthflo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jesus could walk on water, so if Canadians are as Jesus-loving as some Americans, water counts too.