Canada Election Result Bad News For DMCA Opponents

An anonymous reader writes "For those with a stake in the opposition of Jim Prentice's C-61, the Canadian DMCA, this previous week's election results will be displeasing. The Conservative Party, which promised to reintroduce the DMCA if elected, gained 19 seats this election, mostly at the expense of the flagging liberal party, a mere 12 short of a majority government. The increase in Conservative representation, as well as the relatively low profile of this issue amidst other, more pressing concerns, increases the likelihood that the son of C-61 will come to fruition. On a positive note, the number of MPs supporting Geist's copyright pledge has increased to 34. Given the Conservative Party's historic disregard of public opinion, however, the efforts of the copyright-pledge MPs will have to rally the full opposition across three major parties in order to defeat the bill. A mere 12 MPs now stand between the Canadian public and the MAFIAA's hungry maw."

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Re:these guys, those guys, it doesn't matter

[flajann]

The entire global ecomonic system is based largely on fantasy, anyway - the fantasy that markets will always grow exponentially without bound. Clearly nonsensical, of course, but look at how most of these finiancial systems are structured, and what most "advisors" will tell their clients, etc.

This is all about self-organized cricitality, and the global system was set to collaspe no matter what. It just happened that the scream in the US caused this particular avalanche, but it could've just as easily been triggered by a Canadian scream, a German scream, etc.

Humans are funny creatures; the truth is so plain and obvious that most never even see it.