Interesting warning regarding filesharing

Thu Feb 26 22:59:35 UTC 2004

On 16:47 Thu 26 Feb     , JoeHill wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:15:12 -0500
> Noah John Gellner disseminated the following:
> 
> > A person who downloads copyrighted movies or software commits an offence under
> > Canadian law.
> 
> That's a *criminal* offense?
> 
> I was under the impression that copyright cases were strictly under the civil
> process.

Yea copyright infringement is civil and so as per an earlier post, a US company can sue you in Ontario for it. Therefore people should take the warnings coming from the US seriously. While people who are sued won't be going to jail, they are certainly open to financial risk. 
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