Mr. Moore, you had one job

Last week, we let you know about a series of outrageous notices that Canadian Internet users were receiving, some claiming that they could owe up to $150,000 in fines for allegedly downloading copyrighted material. These notices, issued by U.S. media giants and passed on through Canadian ISPs, want you to believe that you can even be kicked off the Internet, simply for being suspected of copyright infringement. These notices have been issued on unproven accusations and the threats have no precedent in a Canadian court of law. In fact, for proven acts of copyright infringement, the maximum fine that the law allows is thirty times less than what these media giants are trying threaten Canadians downloaders with, and Canada’s notice-and-notice copyright system says absolutely nothing about kicking anyone off the Internet.

It’s a scare tactic to shakedown Canadians. A shady cash-grab designed to bail out Big Media’s outdated business model. They think they can walk around like so many bullies shaking lunch money out upturned kids’ pockets. What do you think about that?

What’s worse is that Industry Minister James Moore had a chance to prevent this behaviour but dropped the ball.

Tell Industry Minister James Moore to protect Canadians, and stop this outrageous shakedown today.

The government has already admitted that we have a problem– but they haven’t taken any action to close the legal loophole. In the meantime, thousands of Canadians are getting notices every day, telling them to pay up now or get sued.

Canada’s copyright rules are meant to be fair and balanced, but this huge legal loophole is allowing U.S. copyright trolls to intimidate and threaten Canadians with “settlement offers”. And here’s the kicker: there’s no proof the targets of these letters have done anything wrong.

The same U.S. copyright trolls who are threatening Canadians have tried these dirty tricks south of the border, and have even been taken to court for their abusive tactics.

Tell James Moore we don’t want copyright trolls in Canada - we need rules that protect Canadians, today.

We know what needs to be done: tell the government to stand up for Canadians right now, before even more of these abusive messages are sent.

And if you’re wondering what you can do if you’ve received one of these threatening notices, Julien from our facebook page offers this suggestion: