Canada has now been deemed a
piracy haven, earning a "a dubious distinction as a world hub for
illegitimate file-sharing websites and a leader in Internet piracy."
Canada is now also home to five of the top 8 unauthorized BitTorrent sites. One
of these sites (number 1), is Isohunt.com. Ranking as one of the top 200 sites
in the world, Isohunt was founded in Vancouver and has as "many as 100
million unique visitors every year."
So why is it that Canada can host
such sites? Even with the US putting us on the blacklist of “shame” (a priority
watch list). It turns out that Canada doesn’t exactly have a framework to put
an end to such sites. While the uploader and seeders might be acting unlawfully
under Canadian copyright infringement laws, but the site itself does not
distribute or reproduce the copyrighted material and therefore is not subject
to legal action.
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