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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. I'm American by rolfwind · · Score: 5, Interesting

    and I want to apologize for my country's behavior.

    Canada - please urge your politicians to tell our politicians to go f*** themselves.

  2. Re:David Wilkins.. by ceoyoyo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't think we objected to him being on the no fly list anyway. I'M on the no fly list! Or at least my name is.

    What we objected to is the US grabbing an innocent Canadian citizen on a stopover in New York and spiriting him away to Syria where he was imprisoned, kept in solitary confinement and tortured.

    If we'd done that to a US citizen I'd probably be speaking American right now!