Canada Is A Magnet For Pirate Sites

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ATTENTION CANADA! This is the RIAA - MPAA! We know you are harboring criminals and we want you to send them out with their hands up! If you do not send these rogue criminals out, we will be forced to invade your country and apprehend them ourselves! This is your last warning! ;)

The MPAA, RIAA and other entertainment industry groups are calling out Canada for its lack of effective anti-piracy enforcement. The groups label Canada a magnet for pirate sites and also want Internet providers to punish subscribers who repeatedly download copyright-infringing content.
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The laws are different, we are allowed to make our own backups and copies of OUR purchased products.

But i am sure they will do something to curb piracy, which of course won't help in the end

Ilovetorrents is a site that was hosted in Canada, not sure if it still is as they got pressure a while back from someone.
 
South Park reprisal

I don't know what the internet and political landscape is like up there; maybe it's that Canada knows that piracy is not as big of a deal as the dumb mpaa and riaa would make it our to be. Not that it matters that much, compare the country of subject to the last Petter of each of those organizations...
 
Yeah, the hypocrisy on display by the RIAA is astounding. They rip off artist all the time. When someone downs a song they want to sue for tens of thousands of dollars.

FUCK THE RIAA.
 
We pay tariffs on our media we buy to burn things like that. That pays the recording industry there money. Also if they want to invade us sure we will just take back what is ours. The canada arm from the ISS. All the patents on space travel and jet engines. Also we will take back all the canadian hockey players playing for your USA teams.
 
Yeah, the RIAA are the biggest ripoff artists in the world. I hope our government doesn't do anything to appease those scam artists.

I don't support piracy, but acting like organized crime to enforce copyrights is appalling. They should need to prove infringement and only be able to claim specifically proven damages. Oh wait, that's what Canadian law requires. I think the US needs to modernize their IP laws and bring them into line with Canada's.
 
I feel that the RIAA is singing the entire "Blame Canada" song from South Park: The Movie as the lyrics fit this situation perfectly.

BTW I second the motion to fuck the RIAA. Can we put it to a vote so that we can make it official? :D
 
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Apparently they believe that they did not pirate tracks or commit copyright infringement because they hoped to pay artists at some point -- although they never did.
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How the hell do they justify that bullshit?
If I went in front of a judge for pirating 300k songs it's be at $100k a pop and the excuse "But I intended to buy the album" would get me laughed straight into a prison cell.
Just goes to show the massive double standards between private citizens that scrape to get by and corporations that lobbies millions to the lawmakers just to f$ck us over.
One nation, under thieves, with liberty and justice for those that can afford it.
 
Canada: ATTENTION RIAA MPAA we know what the last A stands for, 'of America' we're not America so piss off!
 
Good luck telling Canada what to do. The extortion experts that are the RIAA/MPAA need to die.
 
Sadly our government will probably be talked into changing laws eventually. The RIAA/MPAA really needs to just die. They serve no purpose.
 
Oh, and Canada is not 100% safe either as a VPN exit node, we have CSEC which is basically like the NSA. I doubt they're as advanced as the NSA but considering the NSA is probably allowed to spy here too... Though at this point nothing is being done about p2p downloading so may as well take advantage of it while it lasts.
 
I remember reading an article from some where years a go saying aslong as we have photocopy machines in our libraries we will be fine. which always strikes me as odd cause checking out a book is free.

If they do end up start charging people for sharing media atlest allow us to use your online streaming stuff and pay the cheap fee so we would not have to get stuff (copy write block or some lame crap). All we have is Netflix as far as I know. and the Canadian on sucks. Shaw cables video on demand blows four times harder and I don't wana get started on them
 
So I went to a movie this week for the first time since Thor The Dark World was released. Priced have gone up a lot since then. It was over $70 for two tickets and two combos. It was $17.99 per movie ticket and $15-20 for a combo. ($16 + 13% sales tax for a popcorn, drink and candy bar). I almost never download movies, I buy a lot of Blu-Rays but man I can see why people do that. If you make minimum wage you have to work like two days after taxes to take a date to a movie, forget dinner.
 
teh_chem said:
South Park reprisal

I don't know what the internet and political landscape is like up there; maybe it's that Canada knows that piracy is not as big of a deal as the dumb mpaa and riaa would make it our to be. Not that it matters that much, compare the country of subject to the last Petter of each of those organizations...
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Nonsense, what kind of modern, functioning country would have an actual federal agency running around like a lap dog for a corporate lobby group?
 
lol can see it now, the next big USA make work project, US Invasion to Canada for piracy lol

pretty sure when they started taxing blank media (cd/dvd) to offset piracy they shot themselves in the foot, basically now im paying a tax to pirate stuff so i didn't steal it
 
sfsuphysics said:
Canada: ATTENTION RIAA MPAA we know what the last A stands for, 'of America' we're not America so piss off!
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Technically we are American, North American. I've always considered USA people referring to themselves as American as a bit of arrogance, there are more than 20 countries in North AMERICA and about a dozen or so in South America. Technically anyone living in any of those countries are American.

It also never fails to amaze me how they continue to post record sales year after year and still say piracy is killing the industry.
 
N1GHTRA1N said:
Technically we are American, North American. I've always considered USA people referring to themselves as American as a bit of arrogance, there are more than 20 countries in North AMERICA and about a dozen or so in South America. Technically anyone living in any of those countries are American.

It also never fails to amaze me how they continue to post record sales year after year and still say piracy is killing the industry.
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Citizen designation is done by country, not continent. Doesn't change the fact that "America" and "American" are used to designate the USA. I don't think it has anything to do with arrogance; that's just how country recognition went for the USA. Regardless of issues with "American" meaning citizen of the USA, or resident of one of the Americas continents, the RIAA is a USA entity with no jurisdiction in other countries. It's not the RIA'C'. The continent doesn't matter.

I hate the supreme arrogance (among other things) of the RIAA, MPAA, and all of this other bullshit. I fully believe people should pay for the content they want to consume, shouldn't have access to content they don't pay for, but I have zero beliefs that online piracy has adversely affected any person/artist/studio that the RIAA represents in a measurable amount, or is otherwise a member of the MPAA. Maybe not the best analogy, but it's almost like a bank CEO that gets paid tens of millions of dollars is complaining that someone stealing a dollar from another person is hurting them.
 
Wolf_Tech said:
We pay tariffs on our media we buy to burn things like that. That pays the recording industry there money. Also if they want to invade us sure we will just take back what is ours. The canada arm from the ISS. All the patents on space travel and jet engines. Also we will take back all the canadian hockey players playing for your USA teams.
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And we'll pack them up in our plastic garbage bags to bring them home! :D
 
Hahahahahaha. Good luck with that. Just another advantage to living up here, not that I condone piracy. But the extortion and life destroying practices of RIAA and MPAA make me sick.
 
N1GHTRA1N said:
Technically we are American, North American. I've always considered USA people referring to themselves as American as a bit of arrogance, there are more than 20 countries in North AMERICA and about a dozen or so in South America. Technically anyone living in any of those countries are American.
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Yeah technically Kleenex is a very specific brand name for facial tissue, however when someone says "I need a kleenex" they're using it as a non-specific noun to mean any facial tissue. When people say "America" they mean the US, if they were to say "I'm going to the Americas" then it'd be a tad different. We're just the Kleenex of the western Hemisphere :D

Although to go one step further our country's name actually has the word "America" in it, so referring to the US as "America" holds a little more weight than someone from El Savador saying "I'm an American" because at that level you need to make a distinction between North and South.

FYI when you count up all the island nations in the Caribbean there are like 40 or so countries
 
Wolf_Tech said:
We pay tariffs on our media we buy to burn things like that. That pays the recording industry there money.
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Indeed we do pay extra taxes on blank media cause in the government's eyes we are ALL pirates, there apparently is NO legitimate use for blank media in Canada.

Red Squirrel said:
Oh, and Canada is not 100% safe either as a VPN exit node, we have CSEC which is basically like the NSA. I doubt they're as advanced as the NSA but considering the NSA is probably allowed to spy here too... Though at this point nothing is being done about p2p downloading so may as well take advantage of it while it lasts.
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If hardly anybody knows about CSEC then they are doing their jobs exceptionally well... for better or....worst.
 
you can only make a backup if you do not have to break a digital lock...

and copyright lawsuits are a max of 5000 dollar fine.

despite trolls (distributel) sending threatening letters for a fine of 20000 which is illegal.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Does Canada have some version of the DMCA too where that it's illegal to circumvent any sort of copyright protection?
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No, but it is illegal to reverse engineer something for criminal purposes. There is no law that specifically forbids disabling copy protection unless you do and make it available to others in the DRM free form. The laws have been on the books for it since before software was even a thing they just get applied on a case by case basis. There is a hard cap on compensation for copyright violations as well.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Does Canada have some version of the DMCA too where that it's illegal to circumvent any sort of copyright protection?
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yes

Copyright Modernization Act

The Copyright Modernization Act introduces legal protection for digital locks. These locks are sometimes used by copyright owners to prevent their works from being accessed or copied without permission. Examples include passwords, encryption software and access codes.

Key provisions include:

Prohibiting the hacking of digital locks: The Bill makes it illegal to circumvent or bypass technologies, such as password protection, used to prevent unauthorized access to copyrighted material. The manufacture, sale and distribution of devices that are primarily designed to hack digital locks, as well as the offering of services to do so, will also be prohibited and subject to civil remedies and criminal penalties.
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