Not exact matches
Alliance could tell him
about the extent of
illegal downloading because it received regular reports from Canipre (short for Canadian Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement), a nine - person copyright monitoring firm based in Montreal.
Those ebook readers who care enough
about DRM to have a problem with it will, like me and (presumably) like Cory Doctorow,
download easy
illegal tools and break it.
There will always be people who use
illegal downloads because they're free, but what DC needs to worry
about is people who would pay for a legitimate
download but grabbed the torrent first because it was up when they woke up this morning, and they could read the comic over their coffee.
The
illegal material are plentiful out there, so the perceived cost of
downloading something and probably having bad feelings
about it can be lower than the cost of properly buying it.
What was perhaps most notable
about the decision were the obiter comments expressing doubt as to whether
downloading was
illegal in Canada.