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Canada Prepares For Crackdown On BitTorrent Movie Pirates

Posted by Soulskill on from the nothing-else-to-do-until-the-NHL-stops-being-stupid dept.

New submitter dreamstateseven tips this Postmedia News report: "A forensic software company has collected files on a million Canadians who it says have downloaded pirated content. The company, which works for the motion picture and recording industries, says a recent court decision forcing Internet providers to release subscriber names and details is only the first step in a bid to crack down on illegal downloads. 'The door is closing. People should think twice about downloading content they know isn't proper,' said Barry Logan, managing director of Canipre, the Montreal-based forensic software company."

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  1. Suck my pirate dick by atari2600a · · Score: 5, Informative

    $100 for 10 movies, or $10 for a VPN for 100 movies?

    1. Re:Suck my pirate dick by mark-t · · Score: 5, Informative

      You are mistaken.

      The levy that you pay on blank media in Canada exists to compensate Canadian artists for private copying. It might alleviate the impact of piracy as side effect, but that is not the purpose of the levy.

      Under C-11, however, which is now evidently law in Canada, practically all private copying of newer media forms is illegal, since for many newer media forms, copying can necessitate bypassing some forms of copy protection, which under C-11 is illegal, without exceptions for private copying (the law is even explicitly says so, in fact). Therefore, the levy applies to an activity that Canadians cannot even generally lawfully participate in, as an ever increasing amount of content is published on digital media.

      This makes the levy illegal, for all practical intents and purposes. The Conservative Party of Canada has tried scrap the levy before, before they had a majority government, but they have not brought the issue up since the last Federal election.

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    2. Re:Suck my pirate dick by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yes, that is the disgustingly awful part about C-11, but you missed the upside:

      The goverment eventually arrived a trade-off that most Canadians would make: a tougher provision to target sites that facilitate infringement (the law already allows rights holders to do this) in return for a full cap on liability for non-commercial infringement. This applies not only to individuals (likely bringing to an end the prospect of file sharing lawsuits in Canada) but to any non-commercial entity including educational institutions and libraries (who may adopt more aggressive interpretations of the law with less risk of liability).

      Emphasis mine, see http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6544/125/

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    3. Re:Suck my pirate dick by JimCanuck · · Score: 5, Informative


      http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6593/125/ - General copying for personal use at schools etc.
      http://www.michaelgeist.ca/resc/html_bkup/june62005.html - Giving up the identities of individual file sharers.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMG_Canada_Inc._v._John_Doe - File Sharing Specifically, the first such court case that reached that level of the courts and struck down the notion that file sharing is actively trying to rip off and profit from sharing files on a computer, whether copyrighted or not.

    4. Re:Suck my pirate dick by JimCanuck · · Score: 5, Informative

      No BMG Canada Inc v John Doe proved that sharing on a P2P system is legal. There is no distinction between uploading or downloading in that ruling.

      Advertising copyrighted material for copying is illegal, which is why posting copyrighted music for download on a website it illegal as your intentionally advertising it for download (same with TPB/Demonoid etc which is why Demonoid wen't to the Ukraine in the end). You are not intentionally advertising the files on a P2P shared folder, unless someone else looks for it so it's "legal".

  2. Re:Lucky for them bittorrent is uploading by viperidaenz · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was also copied to the buffer in the DVD drive and the main system memory too. That brings you up to 3 violations. There's also a screen buffer in LCD monitors, which would make it at least 4.

  3. Re:Your kind are not welcome. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's called the Pirate Party. Make sure yours is emdorsed/recognized by Pirate Parties International, and become a member. Donating is great, joining even better.

  4. They NEED a WARRANT by CHRONOSS2008 · · Score: 4, Informative

    General Inquiries
    canipre@canipre.com
    647.693.0727

    Robin Berry
    Senior Director, Operations
    rberry@canipre.com

    Media Inquiries
    media@canipre.com

    going to contact these people with the legal aspects of privacy law of canada and let them know that its against the law to knowingly gather information on a person OR IP especially since your scanning hte user to know they are using a certain protocol.

    Scanning without a warrant or private investigators liscense ( still questionable without a warrant ) is illegal.

    MAKE SURE YOU get a lawyer and have them look into scanning and info gathering without a warrant.