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RCMP tolerates piracy for personal use

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rcmp tolerates piracy for personal use

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RCMP Tolerates Piracy For Personal Use
Posted on 11.11.2007 at 20:47 in Tech News by Mr. X

Canadian Police Tolerates Piracy For Personal Use The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations. Around the same time that the CRIA successfully took Demonoid offline, the Canadian police made clear that Demonoid’s users don’t have to worry about getting caught, at least not in Canada.

According to the Canadian police it is impossible to track down everyone who downloads music or movies off the Internet. The police simply does not have the time nor the resources to go after filesharers. “Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted,” Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the Canadian police, said in an interview with Le Devoir. “It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it,” he added.

St-Hilaire explained that they rather focus on crimes that actually hurt consumers such as copyright violations related to medicine and electrical appliances. A wise decision, especially since we now know that filesharing has absolutely no impact on music sales. On the contrary, a recent study found that the more music people download on P2P-networks, the more CDs they buy.

If you have not already read this from torrentfreak, here’s the copy of it at rlslog. Sorry if this is too much tech news for today but this time it was good news for once 8) . We have studies proving downloading promotes CD sales, we have levies on blank media and mp3 players. Now with the official reports they confirm with common sense.

nice

do you have a source?

hello

it would be great if charlie did the same thing.

It's good to know there still are honest Cops in the world. ;-)

I have several customers who are police officers from RCMP to OPP and city police the biggest volume of my recievers sold are to aboriginal police officers who work in icealated areas they love these things, there opion is no different then our its not the fact of piracy its the fact of having to pay for tv thats already being paid for ie:commercialized tv!!! keep them coming and i think one day this will put bev and charlie in there place what they are doing is called profitteering, I wonder if anyone will ver challenge this with bev and charlie??????????

i can understand that.it's like going to a movie theater and watching 30 minutes of commercials while eating a 12$ popcorn & soda.the rich get richer,soon they'll have everything and that wont be enough

They already have every thing and we keep giving them more.

Free music and movies for all Canadians!
Lucky bastiges, don't have to worry about the big bad RIAA