Hat tip to Wade…
According to the paper (translated):
… the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had given up for several months, was told Le Devoir. It now closes its eyes to this type of criminal behavior.
“Piracy [music over the Internet or other media] for personal use is no longer targeted,” said in an interview Christmas Hilaire, head of the federal investigations and questions of copyright theft at the RCMP. “Today it is so easy to copy. Everybody was taken by surprise and we do not know how to stop it. “
In this context, where the illegal downloading of music, usually in MP3 format, has become an overall pattern in society, especially among young Internet users, the RCMP says that the tracking of this type of thief does not appear in ” [his] priorities. “ “It addresses mainly to 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 St-Hilaire. Our plate is pretty full with that…
So where does that leave us… well I think it’s a good thing for schools to be able to remix works for educational uses – by extension of personal use… but I can just see what is going to happen with the American creators and distributors… We’d better get some asbestos suits and chain mail… I think they are going to be coming with torches and pitchforks.
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