Canadian cable companies have ratcheted up their war on piracy by launching a new legal battle.
The effort has already seen Bell, Rogers and Quebecor's Videotron search a Montreal software developer's home and interrogate him for more than nine hours.
"The whole experience was horrifying," says Adam Lackman, founder of TVAddons and defendant in a copyright infringement lawsuit launched by the television giants.
"It felt like the kind of thing you would have expected to have happened in the Soviet Union.".
Now the companies are also targeting Lackman and TVAddons — a library of hundreds of apps known as add-ons.
Vincent Wesley shows off an Android box — a device that has this country's big cable companies very frustrated.
"At this point, there is no choice but to fight," he said in a written statement to CBC News. »