Something better than torrents

Globe & Mail wrote:Have you recently downloaded a song, or a movie, or a TV show, from a site or service that didn’t ask for money, and may or may not have been of dubious legality? You might be getting a notice in your inbox.

Millions of Canadians could receive copyright infringement notices in the coming days as Canadian anti-piracy firm Canipre announced on January 5 2015 it would send out those notices on behalf of rights holders.

The company says it is taking advantage of a new provision under Canada’s Copyright Modernization Act, the “notice and notice” program, that came into effect on Jan 1.

Under this provision, rights holders can notify Internet Service Providers (ISPs) of alleged copyright infringements. The ISP in turn is required to forward the notice on to the suspect subscriber and inform the rights holder the notice has been delivered.

But receiving a notice of alleged copyright infringement doesn’t mean the subscriber is liable for any damages.

“The liability under Canadian law is nowhere near in places like the U.S.,” says Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law.

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