I mean, they are broadcast over the air

it's not illegal here, but it's not legal, it's kinda a grey area here

so maybe if you're not rebroadcasting them

it's weird

like, try torrenting a movie without a vpn and you get a cease and desist immediately, but tv shows are fair game

It's illegal to seed, its legal to download

at least that's the impression I have been under

for the past few years

aah so it's legal to be a bad pirate, but illegal to be a good one

I don't actually know but its also much easier to catch good pirates because uploads are a lot less common

never actually pirate but I go on those streaming websites that just have whole anime and cartoons on them

like kisscartoon

and kissanime

so you can easily track those people down

I'm pretty sure it's nigh impossible to stop people who get their shit from googling "watch "X" free online"

like fuck I'm paying for crunchyroll

they can suck it

in canada it is illegal to pirate anything, but no crime is commited untill you have amassed 5000dallars worth of theft from 1 entity.

"from 1 entity."?

then they can only sue you if it exceeds that

what does that mean

they sue for 5k?

company individual or patent

how do they determine that

like

is each movie you pirate worth 20 bucks

or is it worth 100 bucks

so if you dl autodesk autocad no harm no foul they can sue you if you go on to make more then 5000 dollars using it

oh

they cant do anything untill it gets over 5k, the courts deem it not worth their time

good thing I got sony vegas off of that humble bundle sale

I don't think even 5k is worth your time

also, good thing I made like 17 cents off youtube in the last 10 years

that the min amount you can sue for in canada and they need to prove you did it which would require your ISP to rat you out which is also illegal for them to do

if you make a noticeable amount of money using autocad, any normal reasonable person would just buy it at that point

autocad is 800$ at a bargin

yeah

maya is a couple grand

but yes lets say you somehow stole 5k worth of Disney movies they could technialy go after you

but they need to prove you did this in an apempt to make money off the theft.

which is damn hard to do