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Canadian police say fileshairing is OK

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:35 PST -08:00   News  


Canadian Police this week used some common sense and announced that they will cease singling out people who download copyright material. Canadians who use P2P filesharing software, torrents or other means of obtaining copyright songs, movies or images for personal use won’t have to worry about being arrested.

Canadian police have said that they will concentrate their efforts on organized crime and copyright crimes that directly affect consumers.

Admitting to the impossible task of keeping tabs on who is using P2P filesharing software to obtain copyright material, the Canadian police have also said that they would rather concentrate their efforts on going after real criminals, instead hunting down music fans.

“[Piracy] It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it,” said Noel St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the Canadian police.

Don’t get too comfortable if you’re in Canada, because you might just end up like Hew Griffiths, the Australian man who is serving a 15-month prison sentence in the US after being convicted of software piracy — despite having never been to the US before he was tried.

Will US record labels start targeting people like they have been doing to America’s students?

At least the Canadians are seeing sense.

What does everyone think? Will the rest of the world lighten up when it comes to filesharing?

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