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A Canadian man has been caught by the RCMP for burning CD's and DVD's and distributing them to customers worldwide. He is facing one of the largest penalties that an individual has received for copyright infringement.

This article considers some of the challenges of using algorithms to identify copyright infringements in electronic media. So far this method has been successful especially on FaceBook, catching users posting material they do not have rights to yet claim their own. The downside of this method is that occasionally websites that are perfectly legitimate are taken down.

A law that has been put in place by the Harper Government now allows internet service providers (ISPs) to track our online use and notify individual users when they are doing something illegal.