Lobby Groups Launch Full Assault For Canadian DMCA

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 17, 2009 @06:09PM from the sneak-it-through-while-everyone's-watching-playoff-hockey dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Bill C-61, the previous attempt at a Canadian DMCA, may have failed, but it is clear that the music, movie, and business software industries are engaged in putting massive pressure on the Canadian government to bring it back. Lobbying records show several meetings each week with Government Ministers for CRIA, CMPDA, and Microsoft over the past month. Meanwhile, the CRIA is preparing a grassroots campaign in support of new copyright laws, even claiming that the current rules are costing jobs to truck drivers delivering CDs and DVDs."

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Allow me to help... by PinchDuck · 2009-04-18 03:09 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Dear Canadian Government Officials:
Your Corporate Overlords in the United States DEMAND you pass this legislation immediately! We order our continental second-class citizens to bow to our dictates. If you do not, it will jeopardize your status as our vassal and psychological 51st state. Disobey your American Corporate Overlords at your own peril. Obey!
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
That should do the trick.