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Proposed Canadian Laws to Nix P2P Music Sharing
limber writes "During this past weekend's Juno awards (a vapid Canadian music industry shindig) Canadian Heritage Minister Liza Frulla brought up proposed new legislation that would make downloading music on the Internet without paying for it illegal. High (or low) lights of the legislation include: forcing 'ISPs to monitor individual customer Internet connections for suspicious activity,' and giving the music industry and songwriters 'the tools to sue' illegal downloaders. Frulla further noted she 'wanted to persuade children that downloading music for free is wrong.'
Ok, so if its going to become illegal to download music and let the record industy sue people, is the tax on media going to be repeled?
"auto-sues" - Thanks for the laugh. (It's so tragic, it's funny)
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The DMCA was shot down in Canada so this is just another pathetic attempt to fight fair use. I have no doubt that this bill will fail just like the rest.
Canada has a lot more liberals than the US, and many less politicians who are swayed by corporate interests. Very little chance Canada will ever have a "real" anti-freedom law like the DMCA or like this one.
Its a wonder why I still live in the US.
Its' about access to our cultural heritage, from both our present and our past, being denied to us in the name of increasing someone else's profits.
I repeat, culture should be freely available to every member of our society.
How?
IDK but perhaps, music should be accessable to anyone at anytime for a reasonable price, and then be free a short time later (15-30 years perhaps?). This is not what we have had in the past.
Its' all water under the bridge though, by the time these laws are effective, we'll all just trade amongst friends with hard drives, as if it isn't happening already, the internet is just too slow (though its' still good for variety).
music industry doesn't want there to be free music. pretty simple.
but well.. it's not like it would change anything in the long run anyways as people would move to anonymous networks..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
...And I'll say it again.
These laws are almost entirely unenforceable. As an ISP, if any government wanted to force me to monitor individual users' bandwidth, I'd ask them if they were going to provide me with extra staff to help me do it, since there would be no possible way that I could do such a thing myself. Let's also see if they can persuade their usually understaffed, underpaid police forces to do the job, as well...My guess is that that is unlikely.
Any government that wants to can pass as many laws like this as it wants, and then sit back and watch as the general public completely ignores them. Governments, the RIAA, and WIPO need to get it into their empty heads once and for all:- We *want* to pirate music, we're *going* to pirate music, and apart from a few token lawsuits here and there against the odd big fish, for the most part there is exactly jack shit you can do about it. Get used to it, because it (and we) are not going away.
..they're wearing me down.
Each time a story like this comes up, I find the address of the minister responsible (and it seems like it's a different one every time. How much is the music industry paying these people?) and write my letter, CCing it to the leader of the opposition, the Prime Minister, and my MP.
It's getting to the point where I'm just getting tired of doing it.
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For the common man.
Step one. Start a Garage band.
Step two. Record everything you play, quality is not an issue.
Step three. Name every one of your songs after another pop song you hate and add "sucks" to the end of it.
Step four. Download and upload your songs with reckless abandond across all the P2P networks that are easiest to pinpoint clients with.
Step five. Wait to be sued.
Step six. Reply to said suit. With "I own this music. Suck the corn out of my stink nuggets, you prissy faggot! Leave me alone." On letter head with your bands name and logo, which can also suck. Maybe draw a little picture of a dick, or "the bird" in/near your signature.
Step seven. Countersue for harassment and press criminal charges for barratry.
Step eight. Retain the services of a high profile class action attorney and Lawrence Lessig.