Canadian ISPs Call For Standardization And Fines For Copyright Trolls Ignoring Changes To Copyright Law

Canadian ISPs Call For Standardization And Fines For Copyright Trolls Ignoring Changes To Copyright Law

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190402/09535041925/canadian-isps-call-standardization-fines-copyright-trolls-ignoring-changes-to-copyright-law.shtml

Sometimes stories that appear to have good outcomes end up with unsatisfying ends. Such appears to be the case with the recent changes to Canada's copyright laws. After ISPs in Canada began making a great deal of noise about the plague that is settlement threat letters, which ISPs are required to pass through to their customers under threat of fines, the government did the unthinkable and changed the law. The changes made it so that copyright trolls could not force ISPs to pass these letters to ISP customers if the letters contained the usual tactics: offers to settle the claim of infringement, requests for payment or personal information, a reference or link to any such demands, etc. This should have been the end, in other words, of copyright troll fishing expeditions as facilitated by ISPs.

But, as Michael Geist pointed out at the time, that hope was always fleeting, as the new law failed to put in place any punishment for copyright trolls should they simply ignore the law. And ignore the law they most certain did!