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Anti-DMCA Petition in Canadian Parliament
Matthew Skala writes "Last month we heard that the Canadian government is rejecting some of the worst features of the DMCA (more analysis here), but with Heritage Minister Liza Frulla parroting the media-cartel lobby with a promise to "give the tools to companies and authors to sue" and persuade children that downloading music for free is morally wrong even though it's presently legal in Canada, the battle is far from won. Yesterday, Member of Parliament Peter Julian (Burnaby-New Westminster, NDP) introduced the first batch of signatures on Digital Copyright Canada's Petition for Users' Rights. This isn't just a Web click-through petition that politicians can freely ignore; more than a thousand real hardcopy signatures have already been collected from Canadian residents opposed to further expansion of copyright privileges, and the campaign is hoping for many more. Additional coverage on p2pnet.net."
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Mabye she could start up a hip, happening new ad campaign like the SPA's Don't Copy that Floppy.
Mabye it will be just as effective, too.
Mabye I'm a Chinese jet pilot.
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Enjoy.
Shoot, that's half the country right there alrady opposed to it!
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See this just doesnt seem right. Canadians are supposed to be passive and polite to a fault. Americans are supposed to be Freedom loving individuals that hate big government interfering in their life. Where am I? bizzaro world?
Ah well, at least the Canadians aren't burning down the white house anymore..
Starsucks
As Rev. Lovejoy once said to Marge
"Once something has been approved by the Government, It's no longer immoral."
All laws should be based on morals. its the moral thing to do. otherwise the cavity of immorality will rot away the molars of our morals.
Starsucks
"Everything starts with the children," she said. "They're the ones who say `recycle' and `don't smoke.' The Internet is their world."
Ah, yes, the children, and all the terrible things that might happen to them if this isn't passed.
I hope the American lobby tries to butt in to get Canada to make more severe copyright laws because speaking as a Canadian, nothing makes us more stubborn than when America tries to make us do something we haven't made up our minds on. End result, no additional copyright laws.
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last i checked, thats about 65 american dollars (or 2 euros)
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Ah well, at least the Canadians aren't burning down the white house anymore..
And this is a good thing???
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Just printed off the petition, passed it around the department to sign and then gave it to the shipping department to mail out.
Total time: 25 minutes
Cost to me: 50cents (postage)
Feeling empowered istead of victimized: Priceless
theres some laws you cant buy, for everything else theres internet petitions
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
Lots of French people in Canada.
For God's sake, they've been here for four hundred years!
At this point they're about as French as English-speaking North America is British, no matter what Triumph the Insult Comic Dog says.
By that argument, it was also the British who fought for independance.
And they sure did kick their own asses!
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