Anti-piracy firm targeting Canadians who download illegally

“They send off threatening letters telling them, ‘If you don’t pay up we’re going to name you in this lawsuit and you could be on the hook for up to $150,000 in damages,“’ said Corynne McSherry, intellectual property director of that group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Sunday, May 12, 2013

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