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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
I guess I don't understand this very well either.
Previously, the part you got in trouble for was the sharing/uploading of copyright content, not the download part - so torrenting could get you in trouble.
If I understand this new law correctly, a person who uses, for example, XBMC to stream content from online sources could be subject to penalty now?
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XBMC is not the problem, it is just a media interface the problem is the site that you stream from. Basically you can't violate anyone copyright through a streaming server, bittorrent, napster, limewire, IRC, NZBs ect. The only reason Streaming, IRC and NZBs aren't tracked is because they are not used by the vast majority of people. As streaming becomes a bigger source of Piracy it will get looked at closer.
The sharing upload and download until recent was always grey in Canada up until recently, you could really say pirating not for profit was legal, as you were able to trade recordings with others under the law. This was pre-internet law and meant for recording of radio songs, but that is no longer the case.