ever download a movie? better hide now

[DrLeftover]

A Canadian internet service provider has been ordered to hand over the names and addresses of about 2,000 customers who are alleged to have downloaded movies online.

A Federal Court decision released Thursday compels Ontario-based TekSavvy to identify the customers allegedly linked to downloads of films by the U.S. production company Voltage Pictures, which is behind the likes of The Hurt Locker, Dallas Buyers Club and Don Jon.

But while the court sided with Voltage's efforts to go after copyright violators, it sought to protect against the company acting "inappropriately in the enforcement of its rights to the detriment of innocent internet users."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/teksavvy-ordered-to-hand-over-names-of-movie-downloaders-1.2546477

 

[Nebulous]

How about preventing the movies from being uploaded to the internet in the first place? I'd say whoever uploaded the movie is the guilty party. Whoever downloaded it is just a innocent bystander.

 

[Evil Eye]

Guess what, Nebulous, that's what our judges say
Of course uploading does include peer to peer...