Canadian Gov't makes changes to Copyright Laws

[yearoftherat]

Seems the Canadian Gov't has finally changed the copyright laws:

People caught downloading bootlegged music or other material would face a $500 penalty under new legislation introduced Thursday by the Conservative government.

CP24 news:
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_23740.aspx


Gov't of Canada site:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/crp-prda.nsf/en/h_rp01151e.html

[Unoriginalusername]

"This gets after the person who is making the files available."

It's not clear how the government expects to enforce the legislation, which has been in limbo since the Conservatives first put it on the House of Commons order paper in December.

Mark Hayes, a partner at the law firm of Blake, Cassels and Graydon, calls the penalties on downloaders "more a symbolic thing."

"In practical terms the likelihood it will ever be imposed is not all that great," he said.

interesting

[LockOut]

I can't really see this being easily enforced. I think that it is, like Mark Hayes said, mostly a symbolic gesture, to show the (rich) music industry that the Conservatives are on their (rich) side.

[openuser]

They really haven't thought this through..
How are they going to enforce torrents?

[RallyPlaya]

:
They really haven't thought this through..
How are they going to enforce torrents?

Thats What i was wondering :loco..... i dont buy Cd's but i support Artists by going to Concerts the Internet is HUGE there a re gonna block all torrents and everything IMPOSSIBLE...... what about limewire, rapidshare this is unbelievable and i dont see it happening

...... on a side note my friend in UAE, had their facebook blocked in the entire country and supposodly all Porn is blocked 2 thats sucks :bang..... im sure w/e the the gov.t does we will always find ways to download music

[yearoftherat]

Its up toyour ISP to provide the information


Internet service providers will remain exempt from copyright liability, but they will have to notify customers who are accused of copyright infringement. The providers would also have to keep customer records, which they are currently not forced to do by law.


They could also start throttling the download/upload speed of the users..aka: Rogers

[RallyPlaya]

Its up toyour ISP to provide the information



They could also start throttling the download/upload speed of the users..aka: Rogers

Thats Ridiculous :complain .... What the Hell is the Canadian Gov.t doing .... dont they usually follow the U.S gov.t guidelines in the media aspect..... this is like Big Brother pt.2 im Gonna Download as much as i can now if they actually do this

[wtom]

Rogers will figure something out such that they will profit (as always) AND the gov't will get what they want out of it too.

[yearoftherat]

Rogers only looks after the interests of the investors. They don't care about the lil guy aka:the customer.

[openuser]

With the new legislation and popularizing DRM, I can see how this can take away the rights we deserve from purchasing music.
This is already a problem in iTunes where Apple popularized m4p format that is DRM enabled and can only be played on iPod. If you are not allowed to break that DRM and convert it into mp3, you HAVE to have an iPod to listen to the music you have bought with your own money.. The one that you own. You are FORCED to buy an iPod if you wish to listen to it away from the computer that iTunes is authorized to play the song.. Yes, you heard me right! You can only play the songs you have purchased on only 5 of your computers.. Is this fair?..
So, what is this? More power and profit to large organizations.. And slowly the consumers are becoming powerless.
Like it says, rich gets richer and poor gets poorer..

[DrunknFoo]

makes u wonder what they'll do if it is enforced, no more pvrs provided by cable companies?
prohibit sales of backup medias? lol

Thisis only going to cause controvesy and go nowhere

[garboui]

wow only $500 its not hard to download that much worth of music and movies in a day or two

[McGuyver_3]

No matter what they do to try and stop people from downloading where there is a will there is a way and as long as new music/movies etc etc hit the streets there will be people producing cracking software to publicize it. Hell it only took like 4 days to crack the iphone how hard can it be? you expect the broke gvnment to set something up to track us all down? come on now lets be real

[mazda lover]

wow only $500 its not hard to download that much worth of music and movies in a day or two


you are right, but if you are caught a second time the fine could be higher?

[mleblond]

lol there's always ways around it. Like using IP spoofing so it looks like someone else is downloading, or getting torrents to transfer files on SSL connections and chunk the files using a encryption. That way they can not figure out what you are downloading.

The only way to catch people is to :
A. go through service providers that can log all your activity
B. go through torrent sites/software and get infor from there.

Basically it will be just like speeding on the high way and hitting a speed trap, if your lucky you don't hit one, or else you have to pay :(


Either way, this is not the solution.

[jaimie08mazda3]

great. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE DOWNLOAD IN CANADA. may as well go to everyone's house and waste government funds to do so. yea okay there.

[Go_Habs_Go]

It's just the Conservative government following what the US government did a long time ago...

There have been users in the US that have been prosecuted for downloading music. In one famous case I think a 14 year old girl was brought to trial by the media giants in the US (i.e. Sony, Universal, etc). Not sure how the case ended up but I think she was facing millions in fines and possible jail time.