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U.S. Senators Pressure Canada on Canadian DMCA

Posted by Hemos on from the the-creeping-fingers-problem dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. copyright lobby brought out some heavy artillery last week as it continued to pressure Canada to introduce a Canadian DMCA. U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins gave a public talk in which he described Canadian copyright law as the weakest in the G7, while Senators Dianne Feinstein and John Cornyn wrote to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to urge him to bring in movie piracy legislation."

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  1. Re:May I be so presumptuous? by chazard · · Score: 5, Informative
    The quote from David Wilkins,

    "There's a lot of pirating that goes on, a lot of counterfeiting of movies and songs" and "it really does cost the Canadian economy a huge amount every year, estimated to be from some 10 to 30 billion (dollars) per year,"

    30 million Canadians

    $30 Billion per year

    $1000 per Canadian

    Seems a little excessive!

    Also to claim that it is costing the Canadian economy is actually the opposite of the truth. If Canadians were spending that much and the money was going towards US companies, then the amount of money exported would increase and the value of the Canadian dollar would drop.

    While if the money is spent on Canadian based items, or investments, it actually benefots the Canadian economy more than anything else.

    Scary thing is that Stevie the Cowboy will likely agree to this...