Comments on: What.CD Leaves Sweden, Moves to Canada

By: ejonesss

ejonesss — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

correct me if i am wrong but wasnt demonoid in canada and it got busted?

if that is right then how can what.cd survive.

By: enter8

enter8 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

From what I understand TPB’s recent legal troubles had nothing to do with this move. It was a combination of a growing discontent with the level of service PRQ was giving them along with the offer of a great deal from the Canadian ISP. I also believe that PRQ’s consistently full capacity was giving them very little room to grow (and with PRQ’s high cost little money to fund that growth). Achieving full Oinkness was never going to happen with 40K members and without increasing their hardware that 40K number wasn’t going to change.

What and Bitme now share the same ISP. Although Canada is a bit more politically mercurial than Sweden I trust Bitme implicitly in matters of security.

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I do remember Demonoid getting taken down in Canada. There was another BitTorrent site that got shut down as well in Canada. As already stated it was ISP pressure from the CRIA that saw the end of Demonoid in Canada. The other site was hit hard because CRIA was successful at pretending that such sites were illegal in this country.

As far as copyright is concern it’s mainly because the last government and the current government being minority governments that any copyright laws that sprung up as a result of US pressure never occurred. The only thing that recently happened was the anti-camcording law – meanwhile the two people that got busted for camming a movie are being tried under the copyright act not the anti-camming laws. Go figure.

The only downside of the move to Canada is simply the fact that this will probably draw even more lobbying pressure to Canada which will put more stress onto the consumers and consumer advocates to fight for fair copyright laws.

The chances are good that the current government will fall before a copyright bill is introduced and passed (heck likely it’ll fall before it is even tabled for that matter) The laws aren’t going to change a whole heck of a lot for at least a year I figure. This isn’t even touching on the constant pressure Prentice is facing from ordinary people ever since he took the reigns on the copyright file. Every time he is asked about copyright laws that I’ve seen he looks like he’s trying to find a way to run away and hide. Poor Prentice though last time he was confronted over these issues he was already backed into a corner.