U.S. Rejects Canadian Rejection of DMCA

P Starrson writes " Slashdot readers may recall that last month Canadian policy makers rejected the DMCA for Canada. Not so fast apparently -- the U.S. Trade Representative has released the annual Section 301 report which each year tells the rest of the world that they need stronger intellectual property protection. This year Canada is a particular target -- the U.S. plans to conduct a special review of Canadian policies and explicitly rejects Canada's rejection of the DMCA. A good summary on what this means from Canadian law professor Michael Geist."

Comments

Re:For St Peter's sake

[chadwbennett]

How the heck is this insightful. You slashdotters are retarderd.

First of all how does this have anything to do with Bush. This is made by the U.S. Trade Representative and this is done every year.

Second of all, explain, oh great Canada how you are better than the U.S. and how we have screwed up our own country.

It is pretty sad that this post could be modded up to a 5 and be "insightful."

You are a bunch of losers

The Republic of Cascadia

[Simonetta]

In the novel Ecotopia the western half of the states of Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and the northern half of California join with the provences of BC and Yukon to form an independent country. They convince the Americans to allow them to leave by threatening them with WMDs at the same time that the USA economy is collapsing and taking Canada with it.
Then it isolates itself from the USA: no visitors, no commerce, no media, nothing for twenty years. Finally a New York Times reporter is allowed to visit. The novel is the collection of his dispatches.
Ecotopia's strict seperation isn't realistic in a US corporate-dominated world, but there is a tiny movement in the Pacific Northwest to consider seperating from the USA and forming an independent republic of Cascadia. As the politicians in Washington DC slip further into dementia and the internet increases economic ties and communications between Cascadia, Europe, and Asia, it's an idea that might start to catch on.
The USSR seperated into seperate countries as did Czechoslovakia. It's possible that the red/blue divide in the USA could crystalize into a permanent political division. Anything's possible in the future, especially considering that the Republicians have made it clear that they will be stealing every presidential election from now on.