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As Canadian ISPs Requested, Canada Get Proposed Law To Ban Copyright Settlement Letters
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181031/09472840949/as-canadian-isps-requested-canada-get-proposed-law-to-ban-copyright-settlement-letters.shtml
Well, that didn't take long. We had just discussed Canadian ISPs petitioning the government to amend copyright law such that they would no longer be forced to pass along copyright settlement threat letters to their customers from copyright trolls such as Rightscorp. The opportunity for this comes as part of Canada amending its copyright law as a result of Donald Trump's NAFTA replacement, the USMCA. Well, it seems like there are those in the Canadian government who were listening, as a new bill has been introduced that will effectively outlaw such settlement letters.
The applicable language is part of the budget implementation Bill C-86 and reads as follows.