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RCMP have said fairly clearly on a couple of occasions that they have no interest in prosecuting individual offenders for piracy. They took down a tracker, stated explicitly that individuals who had downloaded from it had nothing to worry about, and funnily enough nothing ever came of it.

Stephen Harper is about the likeliest person to get a bill through to illegalize downloading, and the most we've got out of him so far is one that actually made it financially unviable for media companies to attempt to sue individual downloaders by capping penalties so low you couldn't even make money using a paralegal in small claims court.

With the election looming, and the economy seemingly committing seppuku just in time to wreck his ability to beat the economy drum like he did last election. So there's a strong possibility he's going to be out, and I don't think the other parties have any interest in passing any new copyright laws.