 "Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted. It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it. "
On the heels of the forced shutdown of popular torrent trackers Demonoid and OiNK, and the U.S. government's re-introduction of the PIRATE Act, which would force the Department of Justice to bring suits against individual file-sharers, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have announced that they no longer plan on prosecuting people who download copyrighted songs for their own personal use.
Of course, copyright infringement remains a civil offense, and so organizations like the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) is still able to bring suits against individuals.
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