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."

Comments

Not about copyright at all

[Anonymous Coward]

This is not so much about "objectionable" portions of the DCMA as it is about Canadian hatred of the US. Especially in recent years, there is a tendency in Canada to reject anything that is perceived to be American (such as the DCMA in this case.) There are other obvious examples too, such as the Canadian refusal to participate in our missile defense program and their cowardice regarding the Iraq war and putting an end to the rape rooms of Saddam Hussein.

The bottom line is that Canadia has been a marginal nation (at best) for decades now. If they want to further marginalize themselves by acting like children and thumbing their nose at the most powerful nation in the history of the world, let them. But they'll only continue their slide down the dark path of socialism and hatred of freedom. And I say let them. As the President said, you are either with us or against us and Canada has made its choice. Now they have to live with it.

Re:Not about copyright at all

[Anonymous Coward]

I think Canadians need to go play a good game of hide and go fuck your self. I think the USA needs to go blow up all of canida.

Re:I'm downloading the petition now.

[ifwm]

It's interesting that you got modded insightful without actually saying anything. Gotta love those mods.

Perhaps there should be a "+1 blindly following the herd" option.

I'm happy to live in Canada

[anti-gens]

Well... Quebec would made a better contry, but since we are not an offical contry yet, i am still happy to live in Canada!

Re:I'm happy to live in Canada

[PhraudulentOne]

Yeah I wouldn't mind if Quebec was its own country. Then I wouldn't have to see instructions in french and english. I also wouldn't have to get 2 copies of every instruction manual that I just toss anyway. We also wouldn't have to have 5 or 6 local french stations that maybe 5 people watch within 200 square km.

Morality in Government.

[ShaniaTwain]

It is (IMHO) that it is immoral to take our money and then try to convince us that we can't use what we have purchased.

speaking of morality in government this is from the Ottawa Citizen:

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 300 employees and has the following statistics:

30 have been accused of spousal abuse.

9 have been arrested for fraud, 14 have been accused of writing bad cheques.

95 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses.

4 have done time for assault,

55 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit.

12 have been arrested on drug related charges.

16 are currently defendants in lawsuits.

62 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year.

Can you guess which organization this is?

It is the 301 MPs in the current Canadian Parliament.

The same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws designed to keep the rest of us in line.