Illegal consumption of music and movies remains rampant in Canada despite a torrent of costly lawsuits in recent years. Nearly a quarter of the country stole content online in 2022, either ripping songs from YouTube or downloading files on peer-to-peer (P2P) sites, like The Pirate Bay. A new report from International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), which aims to protect U.S. copyrighted material, finds Canadians among the most active media pirates worldwide and is calling for offenders to walk the plank, or, at the very least, into a courtroom.