Shaw Cable to send warning emails to customers about illegal downloading

"WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg radio station says Shaw Cable (TSX:SJR.B) will
be sending its Internet customers warnings about illegal downloading.

CJOB says Warner Brothers Entertainment wants Shaw to send emails
advising customers that it is illegal to download copyrighted music and
movies.


Shaw president Peter Bissonette (biss-on-ETTE') says the company is
simply complying with a copyright agreement between all broadcast
distributors and copyright holders.

Bissonette says he fully expects that other entertainment giants such as Sony will follow suit.

He points out Warner could compel Internet providers to cancel a
customer's service if it were to obtain a court order from the Supreme
Court of Canada.

Bissonette adds that Shaw will not be providing customer information to any copyright holders.

"It's basically notice of a notice," he said. "We notify you that
we've be notified, in this case by Warner Brothers, that there's been
some infringement taking place, and that's the extent of it." (CJOB)"

I just switched to shaw when we moved into our new house. But I used to get those e-mails from MTS all the time.

http://www.infowars.com/confirmed-venturas-conspiracy-theory-episodes-disappearing-from-dvrs/

I love the old analog technology...The gov't don't know who's recording/saving/d'dling what.

uhh.excuse me?

how exactly do they know its illegal?

oh wait.. they are just making shart up

RCMP Tolerates Piracy for Personal Use

From Nov., 2007. It may be out of date now.




mlauzon writes "The
RCMP announced that it will stop targeting people who download
copyrighted material for personal use. Their 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.


Around the same time that the CRIA successfully took Demonoid offline, the RCMP made clear that Demonoid's users don't have to worry about getting caught, at least not in Canada.


According to the RCMP it is impossible to track down everyone who
downloads music or movies off the Internet. The police simply does not
have the time nor the resources to go after filesharers.


"Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted," Noël St-Hilaire, head
of copyright theft investigations of the RCMP, said in an interview with
Le Devoir. "It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it," he added.


St-Hilaire explained that they rather focus on crimes that actually hurt
consumers such as copyright violations related to medicine and
electrical appliances.


A wise decision, especially since we now know that filesharing has absolutely no impact on music sales. On the contrary, a recent study found that the more music people download on P2P-networks, the more CDs they buy."
Link to Original Source

Triniman- Do you need more matzo ball soup?

Please! Do you deliver?

What part of town? I think that is a good idea, as I think we should have some soup together, if I can get a car and a supplier.
Where did you buy yours, or did you make it yourself?

Watch it... he probably downloaded the recipe off the interwebz and it's therefore illegal to actually use in every day life.

They're watching. o.o

....yet another reason to harden and encrypt all data traffic going to and from your PC's.

there's tools out to mask your traffic, as well as various 3rd party proxies that can be used to access content all over the place.

This is just a 'crackdown' on joe-blow-average-downloader, i.e. scare tactic by the movie/tv/music industry.