Sunday, November 11th 2007
Canadian Police Will Not Hunt Down Demonoid Users; Will Tolerate Piracy
In a stunning turnaround from the staunch anti-piracy position the CRIA has against Demonoid, the Canadian police announced that they are not going to hunt down every Demonoid user. They are also not going to target the average pirate. Instead of focusing on every college student and old lady who downloads a song or two off of a P2P network, the Canadian police are going after organized crime/piracy, as well as piracy that affects the health and safety of citizens. In an interview with Le Devoir, Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the Canadian police, discussed the new Canadian stance on piracy. He said that chasing down every single pirate is tedious, time consuming, and generally fruitless. A very simple statement of the new Canadian view of piracy:
Source:
Torrent Freak
Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted. It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it.Torrent Freak discovered quite a few studies that show piracy as having a beneficial effect on the economy.
46 Comments on Canadian Police Will Not Hunt Down Demonoid Users; Will Tolerate Piracy
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But hey you know, if they target the piracy 'lords,' who openly flaunt their 'skillzzzz' on the web, then that would do well.
Knock off groups like Razor, FLT and Proto.
"It's too bad the government in the US won't say the same thing to the RIAA and force them to sit down and shut up and find a way to make their business more modern."
So giving into crime is 'modern?'
I'll say about 30% of people who are into music elc in Canada pirate.
My guess on it being bad for your health, is hospitals that use pirated software... some hospital software costs like 20 or 40 grand.
Instead of using up resources to try find everyone who downloads something, whilst they effectively lower resources on hunting down murderers and drug dealers. They seem to know what they are doing, unlike Supertroopers may incline though.
Seriously, why they haven't realized this before is beyond me. It's the same way here in Norway. The police will not bother going after someone that downloads a song or a game every now and then. They want the people behind the bigger hubs/networks. Same as with drugdealers, really, if viewed narrowly. Why bother spending all the resources on catching someone that sells an ounce of hash two times a week, when you can hunt down the tosspot that brings 50 kilo over the border twice a month?
Get the source, not the smalltimers. Sadly, though, RIAA will never understand this fact, since they've got their own heads so far up their own butts to actually see the merit of the idea.