{"id":65493,"date":"2023-02-12T15:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/12\/canadians-still-love-to-pirate-music-and-video-report-national\/"},"modified":"2023-02-12T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T15:51:05","slug":"canadians-nonetheless-like-to-pirate-music-and-video-report-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/12\/canadians-nonetheless-like-to-pirate-music-and-video-report-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians nonetheless like to pirate music and video: report &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>I\u2019ll admit it: If you undergo the recordsdata on my pc, you\u2019ll discover songs that I downloaded from Napster and different unlawful file-sharing websites. At the time \u2014 for me it was 2001-2003 \u2014 downloading songs illegally was seen as a goof, even innocent. How might a few downloaded tracks hassle a multi-national report label or some millionaire rock stars?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That angle was completely, totally improper, in fact, and by the point I woke as much as this actuality, the recorded music business was beginning to spiral downwards. Fast. CD gross sales had begun to plummet and it turned clear that piracy was one of many massive contributing elements.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Ongoing History of New Music\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?p=CORU5791969113#?secret=z4aiepp24K\" data-secret=\"z4aiepp24K\" width=\"670\" height=\"482\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues beneath commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My pirate methods have been killed eternally by iTunes. It was simply simpler to pay 99 cents\/$1.29 for a high-quality audio file than endure horrible sounding, usually incomplete, generally virus-ridden MP3s downloaded from god is aware of the place. Who wished the effort of discovering torrents and seeding websites with new materials?<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the difficulty of metadata, ensuring that the songs have been labelled accurately. Oftentimes, a torrented music would have the improper title, spell the identify of the artist improper, or not embrace all the mandatory tags. You must then arrange the songs in some way in your library. Besides being improper and immoral, music piracy took an excessive amount of work.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve since amassed hundreds of authorized digital downloads. As I write this, iTunes tells me I&#8217;ve 79,640 gadgets (564.5 gigs) in my library. Not all are paid-for downloads, in fact. There are many, <em>many<\/em> CD rips together with different audio resembling interviews, with a lot being related to my work with <em>The Ongoing History of New Music.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When streaming began to take off in Canada round 2010, most believed that this is able to be the top of music piracy. Why would you hassle to steal one thing when you may: (a) pay a modest month-to-month charge and have all of the music you may probably need; and (b) join the free tier on Spotify and for the value of getting to pay attention to a couple advertisements, pay nothing in any respect for all of the music within the universe?<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues beneath commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Piracy was conquered. Except it wasn\u2019t. And Canadians are nonetheless stealing stuff.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iipa.org\/files\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023SPECIAL301FILING_WEBSITE-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the latest report by the International Intellectual Property Alliance<\/a> (IIPA), a gaggle that represents the pursuits of not simply the recorded music business, however TV, motion pictures, videogame publishers, and extra, we Canadians are thieves. At 241 pages, it\u2019s an extended report, however it may be summarized on this assertion: \u201cIt is nearly impossible to overstate the magnitude of the piracy problem in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<section id=\"content-dynamic-trending-stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile u-hide-tablet-landscape\" aria-label=\"Dynamic trending stories section\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Trending Now<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9477932\/starbucks-tim-hortons-rewards-programs-changes-inflation\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/19191264-e1583372140247.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" data-title=\"\">Starbucks, Tim\u2019s loyalty program modifications go away some \u2018not happy.\u2019 What to know<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9480155\/turkey-earthquake-survivors-death-toll-25000\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230209150236-63e559ccb383747197f2d342jpeg.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" data-title=\"\">Turkey earthquake: Survivors nonetheless being discovered as dying toll tops 25,000<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"readmore\">\n<p class=\"c-readmore\" data-sophi-feature=\"article-all\" data-gnca-ab-test=\"article-all\" data-gnca-ab-variation=\"control\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"c-readmore__label\">Read extra: <\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"c-readmore__link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4565155\/stealing-music\/\" data-track-region=\"content-read-more\" title=\"Why are people still bothering to steal music? (Oct. 21, 2018)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tWhy are individuals nonetheless bothering to steal music? (Oct. 21, 2018)\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-readmore\" data-sophi-feature=\"article-all\" data-gnca-ab-test=\"article-all\" data-gnca-ab-variation=\"test\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-readmore__label\">Read subsequent: <\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-readmore__link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9474534\/solar-polar-vortex-sun-flare\/\" data-track-region=\"content-read-more\" title=\"Part of the Sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tPart of the Sun breaks free and types an odd vortex, baffling scientists\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Drawing from data in a report from the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (which administers all of the .ca domains, amongst different issues), Canadians are among the worst with regards to pilfering American copyrighted works. We already watch a variety of TV and films and hearken to loads of music, however the reviews contend that the actual numbers are increased as a result of individuals consuming pirated content material.<\/p>\n<p>I quote: \u201cEvidence persists, however, that the digital marketplace for copyrighted content in Canada continues to face challenges in realizing its full potential due to competition from illicit online sources. In 2022, 22.4% of Canadians accessed pirate services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 1 \/ 4 of us? Wow.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re doing a variety of stream-ripping, apparently. This entails utilizing software program to report the stream of a YouTube video or songs streamed from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, or another DSP (Digital Streaming Provider). \u201cDozens of websites, software programs, and apps offering stream-ripping services find an eager marketplace in Canada,\u201d says the report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues beneath commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It continues: \u201cUse of peer-to-peer (P2P) sites remains high, with BitTorrent indexing sites including Rarbg, The Pirate Bay, and 1337x popular in Canada. Cyberlocker sites, such as Mega, Uptobox, GoFile, and Rapidgator, are also a common way to illicitly access recorded music.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"readmore\">\n<p class=\"c-readmore\" data-sophi-feature=\"article-all\" data-gnca-ab-test=\"article-all\" data-gnca-ab-variation=\"control\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"c-readmore__label\">Read extra: <\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"c-readmore__link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9454270\/high-fidelity-music-dolby-atmos-spatial-audio\/\" data-track-region=\"content-read-more\" title=\"The rise of Dolby ATMOS and Spatial Audio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tThe rise of Dolby ATMOS and Spatial Audio\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-readmore\" data-sophi-feature=\"article-all\" data-gnca-ab-test=\"article-all\" data-gnca-ab-variation=\"test\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-readmore__label\">Read subsequent: <\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-readmore__link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9470210\/saskatchewan-stabbings-911-call\/\" data-track-region=\"content-read-more\" title=\"Exclusive: Widow\u2019s 911 call before James Smith Cree Nation murders reveals prior violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tExclusive: Widow\u2019s 911 name earlier than James Smith Cree Nation murders reveals prior violence\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Theft of music is a giant problem, however video piracy is the place the vast majority of the motion is. The report says that we\u2019re \u201cactively involved\u201d in all of the alternative ways we are able to get round digital locks and technological safety measures.<\/p>\n<p>Pirate IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) providers \u2014 generally seen marketed on mild poles at intersections \u2014 have loads of clients. And likelihood is you understand a man who is aware of a man who can repair you up with extra free TV than you may deal with with a particular set-top field. Just Google \u201cIPTV Canada\u201d and watch what comes up. I\u2019ve even seen these packing containers on the market in retail shops.<\/p>\n<p>More from the report: \u201cMimicking the appear and feel of official streaming providers, infringing streaming web sites proceed to overhaul P2P websites as a extremely standard vacation spot for Canadians in search of premium content material in each English and French. \u2026 Canadian piracy operators stay concerned within the coding and growth of infringing add-ons and Android software packages (APKs) that allow subscription piracy providers and mass-market [set-top boxes] to entry streaming providers with out authorization.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues beneath commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cFew resources are dedicated to prosecutions of piracy cases; prosecutors generally lack specialized training in prosecuting such offenses, and too often dismiss the file or plead the cases out, resulting in weak penalties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s being executed? The IIPA believes that the RCMP is just too busy to research the scenario. Local police forces even have their palms full with day-to-day policing. There have been a couple of crackdowns right here and there, however nothing to actually dent the pirate market. The IIPA is demanding extra federal funding to battle piracy, the creation of specialised teams to pursue unlawful IPTV websites\/sellers, and is encouraging Canadian officers to work along with their American counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>And you thought that Canadians have been so good and law-abiding.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/edge.ca\/show\/alan-cross\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Cross<\/a> is a broadcaster with Q107 and 102.1 the Edge and a commentator for Global News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to Alan\u2019s Ongoing History of New Music Podcast now on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/ongoing-history-of-new-music\/id1201968027?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcast<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/m\/Ivymb5pi2vjltzmyfheflcuhqgq?t=Ongoing_History_of_New_Music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2023 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;appId=318812448281278&#038;version=v3.3\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] I\u2019ll admit it: If you undergo the recordsdata on my pc, you\u2019ll discover songs that I downloaded from Napster and different unlawful file-sharing websites. At the time \u2014 for me it was 2001-2003 \u2014 downloading songs illegally was seen as a goof, even innocent. 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