Canadian Police and Government Caught Pirating Movies and TV-Shows

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With several movie studios gearing up to sue thousands of ‘pirating’ Internet subscribers in Canada, the local Pirate Party decided to take a look at the downloading habits of the Canadian police and Government. As it turns out, there are plenty of downloaders to be found on the law’s side. However, unlike individual citizens it is doubtful that the guardians of the law will get in trouble for their alleged defiance.

Over the past months we’ve discovered ‘pirates’ in the most unusual places, from the FBI, through major record labels and the U.S. Government to the Vatican.

Inspired by these revelations the Canadian Pirate Party decided to take a look at the downloading habits of their local Government and police, against a backdrop of vigorous recent debate surrounding online piracy in Canada, and the copyright troll phenomenon in particular.

With help from the pirating anti-piracy group Canipre several movie studios are gearing up to sue thousands of Internet subscribers. Interestingly, the Pirate Party’s findings suggest that even the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Government’s Industry Canada could become potential targets.

“This discovery shows that copyrighted materials have, in fact, been downloaded via the RCMP and Industry Canada networks,” states Pirate Party leader Travis McCrea.

McCrea notes, however, that like most copyright trolls, their evidence is far from rock solid and can’t be linked to individual downloaders.

“However, we cannot be sure who is responsible for downloading the material, or even if it was downloaded by employees, contractors, or a person who was using an open wireless connection. This is why this type of intellectual property enforcement doesn’t work – there is no method of reliably telling who actually engaged in the infringement of copyrighted materials.”

Below are a few “hits” that were found with data provided by BitTorrent tracking outfit Scaneye, starting with the police IP-addresses. The pirated titles are not unusual and the list mostly includes popular TV-shows and movies.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pirates

Industry Canada IP-addresses have also been caught pirating movies TV-shows and games, including episodes of The Voice, Duck Dynasty and The Ultimate Fighter.

The IP-addresses that were found are pulled from peer lists which increases the possibility of false positives, which is exactly how many copyright trolls are believed to gather evidence.

Industry Canada Pirates

In the months to come thousands of Internet subscribers may be dragged to court, with movie studios demanding thousands of dollars in compensation. The Pirate Party Canada speaks out fiercely against these trolling actions.

They point out that despite the crackdowns on individual citizens, the police and the Government can seemingly continue to pirate without repercussions.

The fact that the makers of Game of Thrones and other frequently pirated titles don’t seem to mind, makes it all the more confusing according to the Pirate Party.

“Between the difficulty of targeting individual pirates, the double standard of targeting individuals more harshly than organizations, and the fact that many content creators don’t see piracy as detrimental to their business, it’s clear that something is wrong with the way intellectual property rights are currently enforced,” the Party comments.

“If the goal of copyright enforcers – and the creators they represent – is to increase profits and protect creator rights, shouldn’t there be a better way to accomplish this than by harassing individuals who may or may not bear any responsibility for copyright infringement happening on their IP address?”

For the many future troll victims in Canada, we hope that the judges handling these cases will ask the same questions.

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[DesiPirate]

:hi:

:cheers: to all :pirate:

[Airstream_Bill]

Good Article. Informative. Thanks

[dcs18]

Canadian Police and Government Caught Pirating Movies and TV-Shows

Some of them could be registered here, as well - for all that we know. :dunno:

[STEEL]

Crap!!!!!! Ye, would not put it past them :moon: :evil:

[calguyhunk]

:hi:

:cheers: to all :pirate:

Some of them could be registered here, as well - for all that we know. :dunno:

Who watches Raaz 3? Pirated or otherwise, with or without Sunny Leone! :wtf:

[demoneye]

they cant win this war ! one gone 10 to come . like a drug kingpin who got busted :P

[CreamyG31337]

I work for the canadian (provincial) government. We have public wifi at work (you need a password but it's shared between everyone). I can connect my personal laptop or tablet and do bad things. I don't usually use public trackers, but really, say I did, and they want to catch me. Good luck with that. Are they gonna wander around the building to try to find the device with my mac address, assuming they have a log of it somewhere? Are we supposed to care that this might affect our image? I suppose if I worked in some law enforcement department, I should care, but I don't. People working for the government are too poor to pay for every software they want to try, trust me. We don't even get free coffee!

[VileTouch]

I work for the canadian (provincial) government. We have public wifi at work (you need a password but it's shared between everyone). I can connect my personal laptop or tablet and do bad things.

that's the point. they (or you) are not really doing anything wrong... they're not hurting anyone..but some people want to make it look like bloody murder, because they need an enemy to point their fingers at from their high horse

People working for the government are too poor to pay for every software they want to try, trust me. We don't even get free coffee!

as stated above. you don't need to apologize or justify it as long as you don't abuse/harm others.

and specially not with the argument that you're too poor so you can't sell your kidneys in order to pay them because that's giving them the reason and asuming you owe them.