Canadian ISP warns Bit Torrent users

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I thought I would post this here as it pertains to while I was torrenting an as of now legal anime file.

It seems that Cogeco, a Canadian ISP has begun sending its users warnings about their activities on P2P networks. The strange fact is, the warnings appear to be under DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) laws, which are U.S. laws, not Canadian laws. The BT tracker that seems to be gaining attention is the Swedish .org tracker. The emails also encourage the ISP's to limit users from accessing .org.

These actions can be compared to those taken in European countries for about the past year. Basically, someone affiliated with the MPAA or other anti-piracy organizations would begin a download on a P2P network, then record all the IP's it downloads from. After recording all the data it needs, it would continue to send the information the ISP, hoping that they will deal with the issue. However, there are some complications too. For example, some networks like the donkey network, trade files in small parts and in no particular order. In other words, you may be downloading the end of the file first. Whether you have the full file or not, as long as you have just one part, your client will be able to upload to other users. So would the MPAA ever take you to court for sharing a part of a movie, that is only a couple of MB's and pretty much completely useless without all the other parts?

Read entire story here-http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5537.cfm .

I myself recieved an E-mail from my ISP, but I live in Canada where supposedly file sharing is legal as stated here: Judge: File sharing legal in Canada - CNET News News and the file I was downloading didn't come from the states either. I wasn't uploading and the file was a unlicensed fansub.

EDIT:
My bad! My source, ttp://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5537.cfm . was from 2004. (The date was stamped today in the google search results) But I am basically in the same situation. The CNET link is up to date though I believe.