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RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers
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.'"
The US would have little choice. The UK has nukes and subs, and protects Canada.
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.-- Frontinus, 1st cent. AD
I think I heard it best on the CBC Podcast of Search Engine. Basically, what he said, is that computers are machines that copy information. When they are working properly, they copy information really quickly, and really accurately. Trying to stop a computer from copying information is like trying to stop gravity.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.