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Canadian Gov't Gives Big Bucks to Copyright Lobby
5degreez writes "The Toronto Star is reporting
that the Canadian government is providing
hundreds of thousands of dollars to a copyright lobby group that claims
that education groups are 'devoted to abolishing creators' rights on the
Internet.' Documents obtained under the Access to Information Act by Prof Michael Geist
reveal that government officials recognized that the funding
established a bad precedent, yet they still plan to pay big bucks until
2008."
IMHO, the CRA should rename itself to truly reflect what it stands for. And we all know they will say they stand "against piracy". So they should name themselves the Creators Rights Alliance Againt Piracy.
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I think that then and only then will the right message get across
The sea changes color, but the sea does not change.
It is theft! It's immoral, an offense against God, an action against the holy laws, a terrorist act, an act that leads to killing of baby seals and global warming, an act that goes against everything that humanity stands for, a foul act of one undeserving any pity, an act of communist anarchist hippie facists, an act that goes against every single idea around which the modern democratic governments were built, an act that offends every single fiber of a human being, a foul act deserving the harshes treatment it can get, an act which should be completly eradicated from the entire universe, and left behind, as one of the past vices of our society!
This post was paid for by the Recording Industry Association of America.
**The Hells Angels are considered the largest (and now ONLY) organized crime syndicate in Canada.
At first I thought you'd left out the Liberal Party, but then I noticed you said organized...
Look, the guy clearly wrote "bzzzzttt...wrong," which means that you are wrong, whether or not what you wrote was factually correct. The simulated buzzer sound thingy in writing trumps all logic and automatically wins any dispute.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
I don't know, but Mel Brooks figured it out. Go watch Spaceballs again -- Colonel Sanders pulls the Spaceballs tape off the shelf to fast forward and figure out where Lonestar crash landed. He explains to Dark Helmet that thanks to modern technology, they can have the VHS ready before the movie is done filming.
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
I don't think the problems are as simple to solve as that, but not doubt what you suggest would improve both systems.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but I actually admire Mexican corruption (outside of the corruption due to drug trafficking). It seems so egalitarian compared to the corruption we see in the US (again, outside of drug trafficking). In the US, you have to already be extremely wealthy, powerful, or connected to participate in corruption, while in Mexico, corruption seems available to a much broader swath of society.
Of course, once we look at the drug trade, we have to start looking at how demand and law enforcement policy in the US is creating the current environment of narco-terrorism and corruption in Mexico to a large degree. And that doesn't even begin to consider the role of US policy in Central America in the creation of groups like the Maras.
I guess the point of this is that a lot of the fucked up things in our countries are inextricably bound, whether people admit it or not.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
"ding...correct", the bzzzzttt is final and makes that person the definitive source, no further arguments can be entered into.