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Microsoft Misleads On Canadian Copyright Reform

An anonymous reader writes "As the battle rages over a Canadian DMCA, Microsoft Canada has published an op-ed in a political newspaper that Michael Geist describes as astonishingly misleading and factually incorrect. Microsoft tries to argue that Canadian copyright law provides no legal protections, even after it received one of the largest copyright damage awards in Canadian history just one year ago."

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  1. What!! by EEPROMS · · Score: 1, Funny

    What!..Microsoft lie!...noo , while Im here selling you Vista Super duper home edition for $799 would you be interested in some prime swamp property.

  2. Re:What is misleading is the /. summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... and bringing the practice of law into disrepute.

    How can an event thousands of years in the past possibly have any bearing on the present?

  3. Re:Why doesn't Microsoft... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's Paulestinians to you, sir.

  4. Re:What is misleading is the /. summary by flyingsquid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also, it's not called the DMCA in Canada, it's called the DMCEH.

  5. Tagging: Im-shocked-honest-I-really-am by Crypto+Gnome · · Score: 2, Funny

    Amazing, Microsoft bends the facts to suit their own need to screw the customer even harder than before..... More News At 11.

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  6. Re:What is misleading is the /. summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can deal with fame, but i would not want to be lunny.