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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. Is there an anti-anti-piracy PAC I can join? by brxndxn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm all for completely getting rid of copyright.. Copyright is so goddamn fucked up now that I think it would be easier for us consumers to not have copyright at all.

    Is there an existing PAC I can join?

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  2. Please by pembo13 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just stop already.

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  3. Re:May I be so presumptuous? by bubkus_jones · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ummm, I'd hate to burst your bubble, but Chretien put us in Afghanistan. Harper just extended the mission a couple years. Hell, Harper wasn't even the Conservative leader till 2004 (FYI we went into Afghanistan in '01), and didn't become PM till last year.

    I doubt George's going to have the time to put the US in Iran before he's done. He's got what, less than a year to go, and he's still having trouble getting troops for Iraq, right?