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Court orders Canadian ISP to reveal customers who downloaded movies

The Globe and Mail- In a pivotal courtroom battle over unauthorized downloading in Canada, a Federal Court has handed down a major ruling – one that has all sides claiming victory.

Canadian Internet service provider TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has been ordered to hand over a list of names and addresses of its customers suspected of illegally downloading movies, in a landmark Federal Court decision.

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kingPoS4132d ago

Uh oh, sound like Voltage are trying to turn TekSavvy into a warden for their own purposes. They want a pick of the crop so-to-speak so they can troll at leisure. This can't be any good.

Anthotis4132d ago

Time for Anonymous to get to work..

cyclindk4132d ago (Edited 4132d ago )

Court is going to order techspy to reveal the IP addresses and names of everyone of us.. I mean you who agreed with the above comment.

Speed-Racer4132d ago

192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.3
192.168.0.4
192.168.0.5
192.168.0.6
192.168.0.7

DivineHand1254132d ago

This might make some citizens migrate south to avoid prosecution.

Soldierone4132d ago

If I was one of those names, and they came knocking, fine I'll sell all my movies second hand for cheap, then never buy any again. See how Hollywood likes big groups of people turning down movies all together, instead of buying the few good ones and downloading the endless crap ones....

I don't download movies, but I think this whole "pirates ruin everything" stuff is total bs. Make better movies, they sell. Look at Avengers.....

cyclindk4132d ago

And sell the crap for cheap, like 10 cents a download, maybe 50 for HD, that way people wouldn't mind paying a bit for a movie that turns out crap ANNNNND they'd make some money... idiots they are...

Raziel8934132d ago

What exactly is your point soldier?

Soldierone4132d ago

They need to quit blaming their customers and quit punishing those of us actually buy their movies just because they think people "stealing" them have any intention at all to buy these terrible movies.

Yet when they make something good, its breaks records in sales and does fine, but the studio still cries foul.... give me a break.

admiralvic4132d ago

"but I think this whole "pirates ruin everything" stuff is total bs."

This.

I hate how almost every company defaults on "every pirated movie is a sale lost and every sale lost is money gone", when that simply isn't true.

A lot of people pirate these things as something to do and have no intention of ever buying the movie. While I am not exactly agreeing with that, a lot of these people might say the movie is good or bad, which will result in someone spending money to see it. There are very few definable numbers in terms to how many sales they're actually losing and now they're gotten to a point where it's pretty much just scare tactics and extreme punishments for doing relatively minor crimes.

Some of these people are being fined $3,000 - $300,000 for piracy, yet I can kill someone in the state of Michigan while under the influence and only have 15 years of imprisonment and up to $12,000 in fees. Crazy stuff...

Soldierone4132d ago

Not to mention how many people are downloading them just to bypass the crap they got on their legal version?

I remember actually bothering to utilize a digital code once. Got it downloaded and couldn't transfer it to anything because of stupid licensing crap. So what do you do? Let your 20-30 dollar movie go to waste? Or go download an ad free one off some torrent site that you can freely transfer to all of your devices at any time? (It's worth noting, if you were to do that, its still considered illegal in their eyes.... even though you shelled out money to buy it)

e-p-ayeaH4132d ago

There´s ways to handle this.

kingPoS4132d ago

The worst part is when people fall right into they're hands. Instead, If a movie is crappy, tell everyone & anyone to avoid it, even the pirated versions. Don't fall into their troll infused trap.

I can't help but wonder how things would have turned out if studios embraced the bit-torrent protocol as a public form of distribution.

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