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US Group Wants Canada Blacklisted Over Piracy
An anonymous reader writes "Following up on an earlier story, the IIAA wants to add Canada to a blacklist of the worst intellectual property offenders. A powerful coalition of U.S. software, movie and music producers is urging the Bush administration to put Canada on an infamous blacklist of intellectual property villains, alongside China, Russia and Belize. 'Canada's chronic failure to modernize its copyright regime has made it a global hub for bootleg movies, pirated software and tiny microchips that allow video-game users to bypass copyright protections', the International Intellectual Property Alliance complains in a submission to the U.S. government."
As opposed to those huge microchips you get from Intel.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Blame Canada
A friend and I have discussed whether Canada is part of the Axis of Evil.
We concurred Yes. And reading this article just confirmed it, eh?
In post Patriot Act America, the library books scan you.
Don't put us on your list! Whatever will we do if you put our countries name on a list? I mean I might fly to another country and the people there could say "Hey! That guys country is on a LIST! Kill him!"
It could, and probably will, happen.
Because they are always right! Right? Just like in the case of those WMD. Right? *duck*
No sig for now.
You are a lucky winner in our "Win a Tommahawk Cruise Missile" competition.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
...but I don't know where to start, by size or notority.
SE Asia is pretty much one big pool of piracy all around.
China is a huge one, they don't seem to care about IP at all.
Ukraine seems to be the most fucked up of the former Soviets.
Russia isn't far behind, with allofmp3 and all.
All the remaining ex-Soviet states are notorious too.
East europe in general has a long track record of piracy.
West europe got the fastest lines and places like The Pirate Bay.
South America is quite rampant too, last I checked.
Australia banned the region coding crap, didn't they?
Anyone know if the Middle East and Africa qualifies? Haven't heard much but I bet they do. Now they want to add Canada to this "exclusive" list? I have a much simpler proposition: Take the list of countries. Remove US and maybe their pet dog, UK. The remainder is their list of copyright villains.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
By allowing pirates within their shores, Canada is surely helping alleviate global warming. I thank them.
Some people encrypt by using rot-13 twice. I prefer the more secure method of using rot-1 a total of twenty six times.
I live in BC, the pot capital of North America, and all I can say is the only Chronic failure that I ever see is when someone tries to light up and either their out of Butane or didn't roll properly. Then again...
(catchpa: underway)
Inuit, not eskimos, you insensitive clod.
Do we refer to African-Americans as "negroes"? Or Microsoft as "scum-sucking patent-hoarding competition-crushing market-manipulating idea-stealing monopolistic capitalistic bastard offspring of leprous apes"?
Okay, bad example.
15 million Canadians still agree that "Starbucks" should be blacklisted.
I tried to think of a good sig, and this wasn't it.
How's aboot we withold Canadian bacon, maple syrup and cheap pharmacy drugs from Americans?
Yes, cinema patrons are now having to jostle each other to get the best positions for their camcorders. All those tripods are also causing a safety hazard.
Also, does anyone in Canada know who that person is that always walks in front of the movie 20 minutes in. They have ruined several of my DVD's now.
- "Let's send the Omega Force!"
- "There's a time to think, and there's a time to act. And this, gentlemen, is not a time to think."
- "Canadians are always dreaming up a lotta ways to ruin our lives. The metric system, for the love of God! Celsius! Neil Young!" ... and now Piracy!
and last, but not least:
- "Stop piracy, pronto! Or we'll level Toronto!"
cpghost at Cordula's Web.
Celine Dion.
That will give you pause.
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
Don't forget about porn, which accounts for something like 60% of all P2P traffic.
By far, porn is the most pirated form of IP, yet does not seem to be in any danger of disappearing.
Well, in order to have the law enforced, you have to be caught red handed...errr...there has to be
a smoking gun...ummm *coff*...dang, too hard (shit, did it again) to phrase it just right.
(/quietly exits thread)
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