Industry committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and committee members. My name is Andy Kaplan-Myrth. I am VP, regulatory and carrier affairs at TekSavvy. I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to share our perspective and experience with the Copyright Act. TekSavvy is an independent Canadian Inte

Industry committee  I'd be happy to send some version of them.

Industry committee  Of course, they contain the personal information of end-users. We would sort of clean out the content, if that would be okay with you, and show you the variety of different notices that we get.

Industry committee  Well, as I said by way of introduction, we are not rights holders. We're not media companies; we are just the Internet service providers. I think that if Internet service providers were very concerned about illegal content on our networks, we likely would not start with copyright

Industry committee  Well, I don't think we should be focused on blocking other content, because now we're running up against network neutrality in our common carriage roles. My point is that if we were going to look at illegal content, we would be talking about terrorism content. You know, there a

Industry committee  I wish this were as simple as a yes-or-no answer. If I have to say yes or no, I will say no. I agree that from a policy perspective, it's a complicated question about the movement of content that was formerly broadcast onto the Internet. There are really interesting issues to exp

Industry committee  I understand.

Industry committee  This is not really in TekSavvy's wheelhouse, as you know—

Industry committee  —but I'll take a crack at it based on what I know about the area, briefly. It's really a question, when you look at those legitimate sites, about the licensing fees that have been negotiated and what they ultimately pass on to artists, whom you hear from. It's also a question, w

Industry committee  It's a bit of a different issue from pure piracy.

Industry committee  I don't know what went into deciding that particular rate for Rogers. That might be an appropriate rate for TekSavvy also. We may go back and look at it and see that it needs to be something else. We may be interested in exploring more the idea of a scheduled rate specifically fo

Industry committee  Sorry, I think that the proposal, if I'm not mistaken, is that service providers would be able to charge a $100 rate in order to respond to a Norwich order, in order to disclose the identity of an end-user when that end-user is being sued by a content provider.

Industry committee  We would be charging that rate, and the question would be whether it's an appropriate rate.

Industry committee  We have not gone back and looked at what that would be. It strikes me as probably a reasonable rate, or in the right range.

Industry committee  I'm not sure what you mean by going too far. I think the standard form that uses code that we can process automatically, and that includes the content that's required to be included, would satisfy all of the requirements.