In a somewhat surprising quote, a French-only newspaper called LeDevoir has the scoop on the RCMP’s (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) change in tactics as it applies to chasing after music and movie pirates.  Thank goodness for Google’s translate, but thanks to TorrentFreak’s sharp eyes, we’re able to glean the following:

Piracy [music over the Internet or other media] for personal use is no longer targeted,” said in an interview Christmas Hilaire, head of the federal investigations and questions of copyright theft ‘author to the RCMP. Today it is so easy to copy. Everybody was taken by surprise and we do not know how to stop it. “

“In this context, where the illegal downloading of music, usually in MP3 format, has become an overall pattern in society, especially among young Internet users, the RCMP says that the tracking of this type of thief does not appear in ” [his] priorities. It addresses mainly to crimes against intellectual property, which have an impact on the health and safety of consumers [medicines, electrical appliances, and so on.], But also those related to organized crime, said St-Hilaire. Our plate is pretty full with that, and unfortunately, the small, it does not have time to deal with them. “ 

Well, not much more to say than that, other than its nice to hear that in a time of limited resources, the police are prioritizing their time catching thieves, rapists and murderers, and not, say, dear old grandmothers.  Or, worse yet, grandmothers who are already dead.