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Posted on 13/06/08

Ottawa gets tough with illegal downloaders

TECHNOLOGY REPORTER

Canadians caught downloading illegal copies of music and movies online could be slapped with a penalty of $500 under new federal legislation to overhaul the Copyright Act of Canada, which was last updated in 1997, four years before the introduction of the iPod.

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