Edit: Just a quick note--> I've discovered that these letters have been distributed since at least 2004.

I had heard stories about this in the near past, but now I have personally experienced it.

In short, I have been sent an e-mail from the Rogers Abuse Centre informing me that an ISP-spying company working on behalf of Paramount Pictures has detected that copyrighted materials have been downloaded through my I.P. I was sent a log of the exact activity and now I must officially indicate that I have removed the copyrighted material.

For a while now I've been saying that there is no chance that by the time my kids are using the the net freedom to download whatever one desires will be permitted....but it seems to be happening right now.

I expect a bunch of replies saying 'these companies cannot/will not do shit' or 'they've been doing this for a while now' etc etc....still, though, this seems pretty serious (not in terms of punishment b/c none will follow if I comply I guess, but insofar as these official steps are being taken).

What I am quite interested in is the following: what are the up-to-date CAN laws regarding piracy/copyright infringement concerning the internet?

Enjoy the pics!

Last edited by Nicolas Oliver on Feb-16-2007 at 21:08

lol my brother got the same email

i can bet its because u use PUBLIC torrent trackers, its soo easy to see all the peers that are downloading a certain torrent. If you use other methods to download no1 can really track you

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Originally posted by Sasha f*ck rogers. go cogeco

my buddy was telling me the latter is typically more strict than the former

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never had an issue with them

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E-mail Warnings deter Canadians from Illegal File Sharing The entertainment and software industries have found an effective tool to deter some Canadians from downloading TV programs, movies, music and software. And it doesn't involve going to court. A number of industry groups, mostly based in the United States, are relying on e-mail to get the message out that peer-to-peer file sharing is illegal. Thousands of the e-mails are being sent to Canadian users each month under a program known as "notice and notice." Major Canadian internet service providers including Rogers, Bell and Telus have voluntarily agreed to distribute the notices to their customers on behalf of the industry associations. Telus forwards an average of 4,000 notices every month. Stephen Harrington received a notice late last year after downloading a computer game from a bit torrent file-sharing site. (Bit torrent sites are used to share larger files, such as movies.) Harrington wanted to play the game with his friends, liked it, and purchased it a few days later.

Source: CBC

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Originally posted by Chris Allen Source: CBC

Okay: so what, exactly, then is happening here? Is the point simply deterrence? Insofar as these internet companies have voluntarily joined this effort, it sounds to me like the aim is to deter such activities rather than punish individual abusers.

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Originally posted by cenik Okay: so what, exactly, then is happening here? Is the point simply deterrence? Insofar as these internet companies have voluntarily joined this effort, it sounds to me like the aim is to deter such activities rather than punish individual abusers.

It's most likely to deter people, yes. However Canadian law states that downloading is legal, uploading is not.

When you use a bit-torrent client, you're doing both, therefore they can theoretically burn you for that.

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check this out:

http://wiki.phoenixlabs.org/wiki/BayTSP_Infringement_Link

I think I am just gonna ignore this.

Last edited by Nicolas Oliver on Feb-16-2007 at 20:20

Try googling for a private tracker instead.

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