RCMP: 'Piracy for Personal Use is No Longer Targeted'

RCMP: ‘Piracy for Personal Use is No Longer Targeted’

Written By Jared Moya

November 13, 2007 | 15 Comments

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.

Recent comments by the head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s federal investigations agency and questions of copyright theft about its intellectual property enforcement priorities prove once and for all that Canada truly is the more sensible North American country.

Christmas Hilaire recently told the French-language newspaper Le Devoir that “Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted. Today it is so easy to copy. Everybody was taken by surprise and we do not know how to stop it.”

Rather than allocate its limited resources on issues that are really of a private concern, it instead will allocate them to address issues that have broad, public implications.

“It addresses mainly crimes against intellectual property, which have an impact on the health and safety of consumers [medicines, electrical appliances, and so on.], but also those related to organized crime,” said Hilaire. “Our plate is pretty full with that, and unfortunately, the small, it does not have time to deal with them.”

I think I’m starting to like the Canadian Govt more and more. It seems the RCMP has finally figured out that stepped up law enforcement isn’t the way too handle new technology. Now if only our govt was as enlightened as they.

With news that our govt is actually figuring out new ways to sue file-sharers it really makes you wonder sometimes if Abraham Lincoln was wrong in referring to our country as a “…government of the people, by the people, (and) for the people.”

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Jared Moya
I've been interested in P2P since the early, high-flying days of Napster and KaZaA. I believe that analog copyright laws are ill-suited to the digital age, and that art and culture shouldn't be subject to the whims of international entertainment industry conglomerates. Twitter | Google Plus

i just WISH the idiots in the US law enforcement would do this! You would think with everything else they have on their plate that file sharing would be low on the totem pole. Let somebody come in with a bomb....but make SURE you arrest file sharers! after all they are the ones that are more of a threat to their masters the music and movie lobbies!

mach -1

Let Fredom Ring At least Canada Is starting to Get it Right ! Bring back Demonoid !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You hear that Demonoid?!!? Tell those CRIA imposters to shove it where the sun don't shine...

northwest stew

ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh caaaaaannnnnnnaaaaaaaaaddddddaaaaaaaaaa

mountain_rage

Good on them for realizing where their priorities should stand but it doesn't exactly sounds like a commendation to file sharing. He just seems to acknowledge that they have better things to do then arrest their own kids. Hell I bet you half of them have a load of divx movies and mp3s sitting on their pc right now.

JosefStalin

I'm no Civil War buff so I dont know. To be honest I generally dismiss any such talk as "something that rednecks like to discuss in between picking their banjos and chewing their tobacco"

soulxtc

@JosefStalin If the Civil War was about freeing the slaves then why did it take Lincoln 2 years to give the Emancipation Proclamation? The Civil War was about preserving the integrity of the Union at the expense of states rights.

Damn right bringing Abraham Lincoln into this. Here's a man who led the US through a long brutal war to free the slaves preserve the union and assure that in seven score and two year's time some noble dorks would be able to download bootleg copies of the latest copyrighted Nine Inch Nails cd while masturbating to pirated gay porn.

Dante.Xaiver

RCMP Officers roam the streets in pretty much anything from your grandmas car to hover crafts to choppers

Just so u know. Rcmp officers dont roam around the highways on horses. They have cars to.

torrentforum

Another reason I am Proud to be Canadian and Canada is the BEST country in the world to live!

RCMP: ‘Piracy for Personal Use is No Longer Targeted’

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