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Canada Immune From RIAA?
Nick McKay writes "Tech Central Station is carrying a story on how Canadians are legally allowed to copy music not only in the home environment, but also on P2P networks such as Kazaa."
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Since ya'all haven't read the article, and this thing has been out for a long time - understand that every single person in Canada pays a tax which goes in a fund for the labels, which basically pays for this - it has been suggested that we adopt something similar here, but of course, the RIAA doesn't seem to think it is fair.
FYI, most people in the USA don't give a rat's ass about baseball either. These days, it's the homoerotic frenzy of football (no, not soccer, football). Go figure.
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unlike some panzy nations we didnt take a pacifist wait and see aproach, we knew right from the get go hitler was hosher.
sorry you guys got involved in that whole iraqi deal, mabey next time youll know better eh?
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Ask the Afghanis and Iraqis (just for starters) how many have been killed by capitalism...don't blame the system, blame those in charge of it...
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It isn't socialism that killed those people, It's the greed of the people at the head of the 'socialist' government that get drunk on power who kill all those people. You sound like one of those ignorant americans who thinks that communism is bad just because it hasn't worked before, or better still because that's what your government raised you to believe. Don't blame the system, blame those misusing or abusing it.
Puh-lease. So far the US has uncovered about 300,000 bodies in mass graves outside of Baghdad of people that were killed by Saddam. The number of Iraqis killed by coalition forces is tragic (or capitalism, as you seem to equate the two), but it is just a drop in the bucket compared to what Saddam has been doing for 20 years. And the biggest difference- Iraqi casualties from American troops are collateral damage from us trying to help the Iraqis, wherease the people that Saddam killed are collateral damage from Saddam trying to help Saddam.
...all americans considering an escape to Canada to reconsider. Don't do it please! Solve your problems at home, don't bring them to Canada! Don't make a mess of the territories with your pollution,overdevelopment,suburban sprawl,fear,hatred,ignorance,etc.. Moving to Canada will not help you. Try voting for people who will make some positive changes for once, slick texas oil barons do not belong in office!
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Totalitarianism is what killed the people. It just happened that one of the bigger Totalitarianist governments of the 20th century were Communist.
Totalitarian Socialism = Very Very Bad.
Totalitarian Capitalism = Very Bad.
Democratic Capitalism = Pretty Good.
Democratic Socialism = Very Good?
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