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Re: Can Canada Clean Up Its Copyright Act?
Posted by: C. Donald Brown 2010-06-30 08:17:49

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A few months ago, the Globeandmail.com's Barry McKenna reported that "Canada has earned a dubious distinction as a world hub for illegitimate file-sharing websites and a leader in Internet piracy." In addition, Canada is in the "embarrassing position of harboring five of the top eight remaining unauthorized BitTorrent sites, including the new number-one ranked site, Isohunt," wrote technology attorney Barry Sookman. To add further insult to injury, the Obama administration put Canada on its infamous blacklist of shame -- a "priority watch list" of intellectual property laggards.

Allow legitimate services in Canada
Posted by: jalmolky 2010-06-30 11:08:13 In reply to: C. Donald Brown

While pirating will always exist to some degree, if Canada would allow legitimate on demand services like Hulu or NetFlix I am of the opinion that piracy would fall off substantially.