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Canada Launches ACTA Bill
TrueSatan writes "In an utterly craven move, the Canadian government has launched a bill to bring Canada into full compliance with the discredited, U.S.-led ACTA agreement — an agreement to which most of the world does not agree. To further pressure the acceptance of this awful bill, the U.S., on the same day, released their Trade Policy and Agenda Annual Report (PDF), which calls on Canada to comply with ACTA obligations. For ACTA to take effect, it would require six signatures from the major economic blocks. Tt appears to have no remaining possibility of getting them, yet the U.S., and now Canada, continue to push it forward. The Canadian bill features claims based on spurious health and safety concerns that have been thoroughly debunked by a U.S. report. Despite these claims being so dubious, they remain a cornerstone of the Canadian bill. Similarly, the claimed losses due to counterfeiting ($30 billion USD) stated in the bill have also been debunked. The Canadian bill seeks to give border guards an unprecedented level of control, without the possibility of judicial oversight. Despite a lack of evidence to suggest that Canada is a major source of counterfeit product, the bill puts at risk the fully-legal parallel import of generic items — pharmaceuticals, for instance. The bill would also change copyright infringement from a civil dispute to a breach of criminal law. Pity Canada if this bill is enacted!"
Could the editors please present a less objective article because I'm not sure if I understand how I'm supposed to feel about the issue.
Thank you.
Soma Soma Soma
Heil Harper!
From my understanding of TFA, it's not official legislation yet. Honestly, I don't see this going through, so calm down, title!
You got plenty of oil. It's cold but we will fix that soon enough. Copyright is so much easier than manned wars. For your cooperation, we will let you keep your name.
-owners of the US
.... in the hopes of avoiding the press.
Next I wonder if the Minister is going to accuse those Canadians opposed to this as being murderers (due to the health effects) of Canadian citizens? I mean they already accused me of being in league with child pornographers.
Some Party is about to earn a $1,100 (is that the limit now?) political contribution, and it isn't the Conservatives!
It'd be better described if it were the Trade Report and Agenda Portfolio. Then we could honestly say, in multiple senses, "IT'S A TRAP!"
They're just being polite, eh.
Surprised by the under-handed tactic? I'm not. I've known that another bill would come along, but from which direction I couldn't have guess, Canada least of all. Here in America, we can't do shit because it's not on our soil. Because major corporations are overseas, I believe that they finally found the weak point of the world. Should it pass, the dominos shall fall and we will have to submit to a Dictatorship rule.
I pray to whatever Gods or Goddesses will listen to me ask them to Not Pass this Bill!
If you're not familiar with the bill or with ACTA, have another look at that summary. Every other word is loaded - craven, pressure, aweful, spurious, etc.
Therefore, don't forget the it's OBVIOUSLY so ridiculously slanted as to be completely and utterly useless in understanding what it's about. It's so clear that the author is not just biased, but radically, rabidly so. Therefore, te only use for such a article is for the author similarly rabid people to enjoy reading their own thoughts. Mental masturbation, so to speak.
Something like a poorly made power plug charger should already run foul of electronics certification and trade dress requirements.
Adding yet another layer that the knockoff cloners will blatantly ignore and sell dangerous products at low low prices anyway does precisely dick to resolve the problem.
What I am trying politely to say, is that such counterfeit chargers are allready illegal, and making more legislation won't solve the problem. Only tighter enforcement will solve it, and that isn't profitable.
All legislation like this will do is make more laws for flagrant abusers to ignore, and make life harder for honest people for no measurable benefit.
Blame the editor.
It isn't bias if he is right. It may be unprofessional to call bad things bad names, but it doesn't make it biased or wrong, just unprofessional.
Keystone XL passed a notable hurdle today....
There is no whore like an old whore - Brian Mulroney, former Canadian PM and (presumably still) douche bag.
51st state. They'll keep re-introducing it till it passes.
I don't know about you, but I don't actually feel like anyone has jerked me off. It is clear how they want me to feel about it, which would be offensive in a newspaper but which I find completely acceptable in a blog. Slashdot is not and never has been a credible news outlet, because it is not a news outlet. It is a blogreggator. Yes, I made that word up to make you hate me.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Anything may be sumitted.
Anything may be voted to the front page.
Anyone seeing a problem with that? Now combine it with downmods of unpopular but relevant opinions.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
This site is turning into a meme instantiation mechanism apart from the normal substrate of human minds.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
... Park never has been more accurate.
It isn't bias if he is right. It may be unprofessional to call bad things bad names, but it doesn't make it biased or wrong, just unprofessional.
This!
Whenever the Canadian Government tries a bill like it, it ends up not going through or delayed enough to the point of the next election, then it's ignored for a while.
....it seems to me that's where this is heading unless the Canadians get some backbone.
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Who do you think is behind ACTA?
How did this crapola get past the firehose?
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May as well close the curtains, the show is over.
"unprofessional" has to be one of the most nonsensical, overused words of recent times. What is and is not professional changes over time and what qualifies as professional varies from individual to individual. It's almost meaningless, and yet people act as if it has an unambiguous definition.
We don't see a public outcry against the TPP Agreement's IPR Chapter, we don't see an public outcry against the copyright provisions in CETA, and the defeat of ACTA in Europe was just a by-line. We do seem SOME negative flak for CETA as it relates to the price Seniors have to pay for their meds.
Question: which Canadian MP is a Champion of Internet Freedom and the reigning-in of the Copyright Industry's World-Wide Ratcheting system? Answer: none!
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
...does not give a FUCK about what ordinary canadians think. They are a terrible knock-off of the US Republican Party without a single original idea in their Alberta-based skulls that doesn't come from a bad idea that was though of by the US Republicans first.
Generalissimo Harper thinks that his idiotic "Conservative" party is the natural ruling party of Canada. He works for the oil companies, the religious nutcases, and his proxies in the US Republican Party. He does NOT represent anything Canadian.
I'm surprised we don't have our own DCMA and TSA here yet. Oh give it time, the Generalissimo has his marching orders coming from the Republican Party.
Well spotted. Because it is obviously the role of the state to enforce obsolete business models. Especially when the ruling party is paid by the people who are dependent upon them. No bias at all there. Nothing to see here. Move along.
They're going to keep using piracy to justify taking away more rights and privacy. Every time you pirate a movie, mp3, or game, think about how your unethical actions are destroying the net we all love.
Piracy is being used as a tool to end Internet freedom, thus you are a tool if you use the Internet for Piracy. Discuss.
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We e-leverage our synergies to that effect for stakeholder fulfillment.
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Unfortunately won't happen. Because a large majority of our population have no idea what this bill is for and even reading it doesn't give them any idea. That coupled with the conservative government doing whatever it wants since it got the majority in the last election, means that we're screwed.
Good job Canada, you wanted the conservative party in, they got in, now they are screwing us over. Our only salvation would be if the NPD, which got in from the massive voting in their favor in Quebec.
and hes right because you say so?
I have to laugh at the sense of self entitlement of piracy advocates
Fucking Conservatives! Fucking Harper! Stupid, stupid, stupid rat bastards. They have had their share of screwups lately, but they need to catch hell supreme over this. They tried pulling this draconian crap before and got stopped. This must end, now! They must be informed, very clearly, that signing this bill will guarantee 90 seats lost in the next election, never getting elected again, and repeal 20 seconds after the next election of this bill. Also they *deserve* a very rough ride for the rest of their term. They have 3 more years before a forced election, plenty of time for another party (nearly any is looking better than what we have now). They need to feel the heat.
You're entirely wrong, which is the problem. It is bias even if he's right. But it's very difficult to distinguish correctly-biased vs. incorrectly biased.
The GP specifically said "if you're not already familiar". If you aren't already familiar, then there's no way you can tell whether this is correct bias. Therefore a rational person discards this person as being just as likely a bullshitter as a purveyor of truth.
When you start calling things 'awful,' you're making value judgements. When you make value judgements, you are being biased. ACTA isn't awful for everyone; that's what politics is about, different people having different preferences.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
By the way, the FDA is still firmly on the side of "In most circumstances, it is illegal for individuals to import drugs into the United States for personal use."
So your idea of what is fully legal, and the FDA's, are obviously different.
Those that run Canada have only one agenda- to cravenly support the depraved war-mongering racist zionist regime of Israel at all costs. The needs of the Canadian people don't come second- they simply do not count at all.
The consequence of this zionist corruption is that the politicians of Canada are fully for sale, and can be bought extremely cheaply by any interest group that has the approval of Israel. Hollywood, of course, is 'little Israel', so Hollywood is free to write Canada's IP 'protection' laws. The Canadian government is also fully pro-torture, pro-holocaust in Syria and Iran, and is currently engaged in a massive coverup of state genocide of 'native' children that were forceably removed from their parents and put into 'death' camps where frequently the majority of them (yes, 50%+) died.
Of course, Canada is not, and never was a real nation. Its relationship to the UK and the USA defines it as a most pathetic subservient state- easily the worst of all the major English-speaking ex-colonies of the British Empire (and given that list includes Australia, that is really saying something). Now the US war-machine is really ramping up, the US government wants visible signs of subservience from its very junior partners. The zionists that run Canada are only too willing to oblige.
I have to laugh at the sense of entitlement of monopoly advocates. "I should be the only one allowed to do X!!".
This is Mr. Harper, whose Reform/Alliance/Conservative party supposedly stands for individual liberty over the oppression of the corporations, fairness to Canadians and loyalty to the principles of peace, order and good government.
Their actions are a betrayal of their own members, the legalization of the oppression of citizens by corporations and the subversion of Canadian judicial independence from the U.S.
I'm sure his antediluvian core supporters will think this is a good idea, but I suspect anyone under fifty will find it at least a little suspicious!
This is really rather important: More emphasis! More emphasis!
--dave
davecb@spamcop.net
A wet dream for many industries. Now they can use tax dollars to run their fishing operations instead of their own.
It is a blogreggator.
So then the article is "blogreggation"?
I'm sorry? Yes, we did have an "outcry" against CETA here on the Internet and in European political forums.