Monday, 5 November 2012

Music Piracy: Canada Among Top Countries For Unauthorized Downloading


http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/09/20/music-piracy-canada-top-countries_n_1899752.html
   From the information stated in this article we can see that Canada is in 4th place for downloading music on Bit torrent which is the largest file sharing system. The USA was number 1st of course in downloading music on BitTorrent. This article states that the USA is pushing Canada to become stricter on its piracy policies. I don't think being bullied by USA really helps motivate us seeing that they are number one for downloading. The article also show the correlation with countries that have the highest broadband use where Canada and the United States do not come close to the top five. So really what does motivate people in North America to download so much? It doesn't seem like a national crisis for Canadians and if the problem really doesn't effect to many people I don't see why the government should spend the peoples tax money on an issue half the population probably doesn't know about. “Canadians may complain about high internet bills, low download limits and too few choices for providers, but that certainly isn’t stopping people from illegally downloading songs like crazy.”

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