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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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I blogged about this on August 20th. How slow is /.? I thought this was a *news* site.
Topical: Another reason it rocks to be boreal.
I am from a small, grease-loving country in the north called Ca-na-da.
I don't know if a country with as many banned books and thought crime laws as Canada can fairly be called 'socially libertarian'
Ohhhhhhh CAAAANAADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Our home and native land!!!!
w00t!
If all Canadians sing that badly, it's no wonder the RIAA's turned a blind eye to your entire country.
Deal with it.
Lawrence Lessig is my personal hero.
Really.
Socialism only killed 100 million people last century.
I wonder why more people don't embrace it.
I submitted a link to this article back in August and it was rejected!!! Wasn't it relevant then? Wahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
"All we have to do to invade Canada is to walk in." - Thomas Jefferson
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
"So that means every time you buy a CD to backup your Word documents, or photos, or home movies etc you pay a $0.77 tax which ends up going to the music industry."
Welcome to socialism, where wealth is arbitrarily redistributed based on the whims of those in power. This is what you get when you sacrifice the rights of individuals to promote the needs of the collective.
Vote for Pedro
As one of our factory workers said (after recently immigrating from an Eastern European state): "In all the communist countries I've lived in, Canada is the worst."
The Canada I grew up in no longer exists. It's been replaced by a two-class elitist society run by a crop of communist pseudo-leaders selling a bill of goods to a people that are sound asleep.
They happ'ly argue about such nonsense as same-sex marriage (obviously without understanding what marriage is) as a pretense to an issue for a "democratic" election, while ignoring real issues that might have importance to the citizens.
Democracy in Canada happens once every 4 to 4.5 years, with a totalitarian dictatorship the rest of the time. (Would be a quite different if there was a channel of recall implemented.)
After 45 years of citizenship, I'm history.
See ya.
i posted a link to this in response to another RIAA article a few days ago, and i got modded down to 0, Troll.
what gives?
I belong to the ______ generation.
Hey dingbat.... maybe you canadians dont understand but I dare you to go to anyplace in south america and tell them they are not americans...
you live on the american continents your a Fricking american..
idiot canuk.
How about 500,000 US Military deaths in WWII vs. 39,000 for Canada?
1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
always shouldered your share in the past yes. now your country is too busy with naval gazing nihilism and euro-weasel worship to step up as you have in the past.
I want the government watching out for me. It's the only thing big enough to stand against corporations like the RIAA.
You already have your wish. You have interventionist government. And interventionist government gets captured by concentrated deep-pocket interests every time. You asked for it, you got it, you got screwed by it.
better health care
Is this really true? Or is it simply affordable because Canada doesn't have an FDA? The same drugs in Canada are cheaper than in the USA.
lower crime
There are still areas of the USA (way far away from the inner city) where people still don't lock their doors. Also, Canada's population density is a faction of that of the US. Also, if Canadians didn't band together, they'd freeze to death.
These arguments comparing Canada to the USA are generally very very superficial.
How about this question, because I'm generally ignorant of these things: Does Canada have a founding document as potent as the US Constitution or are they still bent over for the Queen?
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin
oh come on... the american health system is ridiculous. turning away the sick because they can't afford health insurance, whilst spending more than the other top 20 spenders combined on "defense" (ie: attack)?
now that's what i called an enlightened society.