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Lobby Groups Launch Full Assault For Canadian DMCA
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."
Fuck! Time to burn all those computers to ensure more accountant, science, mathmatics, physics, secretarial jobs don't get "lost".
See... you backwards Canadians. They made the tubes out of metal, didn't they? They could have made the tubes smaller, and made them out of glass. Glass tubes are more slippery and let the packets go through faster.
Though I admit that a moose could probably do more damage stumbling over a glass tube than a metal one.
Technological change is most definitely not a good thing. Those stinking truck drivers and their trucks have ruined my career as a stage coach driver!
I say they should encourage piracy to make sure the lawyers always have work.
Mind you if I have to choose between truck drivers and lawyers...
Sam "to lazy to register" Look
Don't forget that they need to be straight, or on a very gradual curve. Otherwise the 1's and 0's can start clogging up the tubes, especially if its looped.
Yea all 10 of em are a concern.
Thank god no Americans died because of your toast, or you'd be a terrorist!
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even claiming that the current rules are costing jobs to truck drivers delivering CDs and DVDs."
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I will see your "jobless CD and DVD delivering truck drivers", and raise you one "dependence on foreign oil funds terrorism". So see, distributing digital material online actually reduces global terrorism and is thus a "goof thing"! Your move.
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I'm from Saskatchewan, Canada, and there is no way we would believe the trucker's woes are caused by a drop in CD and DVD sales. We all know it's the atheists, causing a decreased demand for bibles. Simple when you think about it.
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Yeah, you just want that Money song, they charge you the moon.