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Music Industry Loses In Canadian Downloading Case
pref writes "'Canada's music industry can't force Internet service providers to identify online music sharers, a Federal Court judge has ruled.' They wanted the Internet service companies like Sympatico, Rogers and Shaw to give them the real identities of the individuals so they could sue them for copyright infringement. They were seeking a court order requiring the companies to provide the information. But they didn't get it, so the Internet companies don't have to identify their clients and the music companies can't proceed with their lawsuits.""
As far as Im concerned, the gov't should just stay out of it.
Then you should vote Republican! They're conservatives, and--what? Oh. Shit.
Yes Mods are so stupid. --- P.s.:- Just imagine the irony if someone mods this as troll.
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
What are they really saying is that they detest being treated like everyone else, why them being rich and aristocratic! Where are the private nurses lined up waiting to satisfy the smallest whim of the oh, sooo important patient? What? They have to be in the same hospital as those low-life blue collar people?! Insolent peasants?! How dare they! And they wont even take the money to push the princes and princesses to the front of the queue! This is downright un-Christian and un-Capitalist! Abolish the national medical care! That will show those pinko communists! Let them spend 40% of their income on medical insurance.
In case you didnt notice I am starting to find the attitude of the proponents of "two-tier" and "private" medicine not only annoying but being hostile to the very top social achievements this country has. That's right, Medicare is one of them. I will tell you this, so that there is no mis-understandings: if there is one cause that will make me (and vast majority of Canadians) take up arms, this is it. Want to start a civil war? Abolish medicare, I will be a combatant.
So! Nice argument. And why can't we have 40% of the population with no medical care and another 40% percent paying 50% of their incomes for partial coverage and "public" system that is only capable of delivering band-aid (if you wait 7 years in the queue)? Face it, we are going there already thanks to doctor's greed and uncontrollable rampant profiteering down in the USA which is responsible for our medical costs skyrocketing! The only thing now is to join the feeding frenzy and just make sure we end up with some Canadian born hyenas getting rich too. The socialists can't/won't accept this as the final outcome and this shows that even in the face of impossible odds they still retain some hope for the future of this country as one of the few places on the planet where rational thinking and not naked greed and lust for power are in charge.
Yes I do. It means that one is making a lof of money and paying its suppliers and staff many times more then the other, which is constrained by its tax-generated funding and accessibility to all citzens. It means that one crumbles rapidly as staff leaves and suppliers become too expensive for it untill there is nothing but an empty shell to which the politicians pay nothing but lip-service. That is what it means.