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Too little too late. Fuck their apology, damage is done.

What? You became a member of the US Pirate Party? Otherwise there is little to no damage done to the real perpetrators of this crime. Canadians go here.

There is an actual Canadian Pirate Party http://www.pirateparty.ca/ And personally, i think they could make a huge statement in Canadian politics, with enough support.

A political ad doesn't do much good if you don't mention the party!

That depends on how quickly Canadians can get Pirate candidates onto ballots.

The Pirate Party stands for selling out to consumers.

I plan to do the same. I think I'm even fortunate enough to have someone running in my riding, so they'll definitely get my vote.

Yeah, turns out the party leader's in my riding (Edmonton Centre) and they're having some sort of everyone-welcome planning meeting this weekend. I think I'll go and see how it is.

Anyway, their candidates: https://www.pirateparty.ca/about/candidates
Which has a link to a handy check-what-riding-I'm-in tool: http://www.elections.ca/scripts/pss/FindED.aspx?L=e

http://www.pirateparty.ca/

http://www.pirateparty.ca/

The Pirate Party of Canada is eligible for Official status (they've filled out all the paperwork and have been approved by Elections Canada). They just internally elected their first candidates last night, in fact. http://www.pirateparty.ca/

Not sure why, but the link above seems to direct back here. Use this instead...

www.pirateparty.ca

I would give plenty of money to it. I suppose I'll have to settle for the Pirate Party of Canada.

If you did not know why Canada needs The Pirate Party of Canada before today, I imagine it is becoming clearer to you. http://www.pirateparty.ca/

Signed up!

If you did not know why Canada needs The Pirate Party of Canada before today, I imagine it is becoming clearer to you. http://www.pirateparty.ca/

Along with writing your MP, you could also get involved in the Canadian Pirate Party.

Here is their policy on copyright. In summary, they want to limit what is considered a derivative work to works which actually contain limited additional creative content (ex. translations), limit terms to 5-15 years, and only enforce copyright on commercial uses. I can see the last part as being extreme, but I do not think it is actually a bad idea.

You'd be able to help out best by joining your local Pirate Party.

Pirate Party Canada
Pirate Party International - Find your own country's here.

I hope so too thats why I joined http://www.pirateparty.ca/

As a Canadian, I have decided to actively help the Pirate Party set up shop in Canada. I am happy to say that we are on track to apply for registration in the next few weeks. We are just waiting on 2 pieces of paperwork (one from Industry Canada, one from an accounting firm) to complete the huge stack of paperwork we've already accumulated.

You can find more at http://www.pirateparty.ca/

You paid to listen to their music, you can listen to it on whatever device you want.

In an ideal world, yes. You pay for something, you use it. But not these guys. They want you to pay for every format shift. In the case of televised programs, they want to you pay for every time shift. But what if you need to time or format shift it to properly use it? Tough luck, bucko, then you just bought a very nice coaster, good luck returning opened merchandise to the store. They've already pushed the idea that you're only borrowing their music, that putting down money for a disk doesn't grant you the right to use it in any legal way you please.

Their ultimate goal appears to be pay PER USE. Did your daughter put the latest bubblegum pop princess single on repeat ALL this afternoon? Fifty cents a play autocharged to your credit card. Good thing you pay $50 a month for the discount plan, or that would have been a buck fifty a play! We can also sell you the ultra-discount plan that's only $100 a month and ten cents a play! This week only, get TEN FREE PLAYS of any Flava Flav song already in your collection with a three year contract!

Banning or restricting time shifting and format shifting is of no use to the busker on the street, but allows a company to profit by re-selling the same product to the same customer in different wrappers should technology or even a person's work schedule change. Many of the 'little people' (or people who claim to represent the 'little people' or the 'starving artists') who insist that Canada needs copyright reform so they can better feed their families strangely don't explain why their neighbor, whose family won't see paychecks in the fifty years after he dies, should have to enjoy the things he has bought and paid for only on their terms, even if it means he never gets to enjoy them at all.

To my fellow Canadians: The more of this shit we put up with, the more that they'll shovel on us.

http://copyright.econsultation.ca/ - Let them know what you think of the copyright reforms - like this one - being discussed right now.
http://www.pirateparty.ca/sign-up - Let's see if we can get an actual political party off the ground, one that actually fights for the rights of the people!

(Do I sound like an activist? I was completely politically apathetic, voted twice in my entire life, until they started pulling this garbage. We can't put up with this anymore.)

http://www.pirateparty.ca/ , and we now have a new website

Pirate Party of Canada is getting started.

http://www.pirateparty.ca/