This for real?

[nature boy]

oh yeah, i was going to post in this thread.
i talked to my brother about this, and he said that there is no way that they can ever do what they're threatening to do (get your ip info and charge you) because canadian law won't allow it (the states could be different). apparently they faced something similar at sfu where a lot of students download stuff off the school network. some officials came and asked them to release the info so they can charge the students, but they refused on legal ground. all those officials could do was give sfu a notice to pass to those downloading, and it all just ends there.

so i'm almost caught up on homeland now.

[se7entse7en]

I think they were trying to pass a bill that would allow the cops to demand the information from the isps without a warrant. Bill C-30. For publicity's sake I think they called it the, "Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act". It was part of that whole TellVicEverything explosion that happened on twitter a while ago. As far as I know, the bill was tabled.

[nature boy]

yeah, and according to my brother, it'll never be passed.

[geForce]

The media production companies were targeting the source of the piracy a while back... makes more sense to target the source rather than the millions of people who download it.

[nature boy]

well, they got that extra tax or levy or whatever put on blank media. according to my brother's logic, that is good enough.