According to the CBC, the Judge ruled that file sharing is within the bounds of Canadian copyright law.
Specifically, from the Judge's ruling:
"No evidence was presented that the alleged infringers either distributed or authorized the reproduction of sound recordings. They merely placed personal copies into their shared directories which were accessible by other computer users via a P2P service."
The Conservative party could take office in the next election if enough voters actually wanted to vote for them.
The last time I checked, there were four boxes to check on my ballot. The Liberals have only been in office for so long because... people voted for them.
Actually, both our Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition were elected; otherwise, they would not have seats in Parliament.
Please don't confuse the Canadian system with American system. We don't hold "Presidential" elections per se; the point of an election in Canada is to elect Members of Parliament. The Prime Minister is the leader of the party that wins the most seats, and is appointed by the party. The PM is never directly elected by the general electorate.
Thus, in the last election, Jean Chretien was not elected as PM (although he was elected in his riding to the House of Commons); he was the leader of the party that was elected to the most seats. Now, Paul Martin is the leader of the Liberal party, so he is Prime Minister. I see nothing spooky about this whatsoever.
Between the Door Closer and the Counselor, he neglected to mention the quantum physics prof who believes that his door is simultaneously open and closed.
Any flavour of DRM ignores the fact that I can still plug my conventional CD player into my LINE IN jack on my sound card, and get a decent recording.
The ultimate solution to revive the recording industry is NOT copy-protection. Ultimately, the industry must figure out how to serve the consumer's desires (this is the basis of all business and economics practices, something that the RIAA among others must have forgotten). What other industry can produce a product that is 90% crap and 10% okay, and expect the consumer to willingly pay for all 100% of it? If this were the standard business model, our Dell computers would be running P4-2.5 GHz processors with 64K RAM and 50 MB hard drives, and we would pay $3000 for them! The recording industry must acknowledge that if consumers are not willing to pay for its product, there is something wrong with (a) the product or (b) the distribution strategy (the 90%/10% ratio). I would have no problems shelling out $20 for a CD if it had more than one or two good songs on it.
By the way, the recording industry in Canada has managed to lobby a 20% levy on each blank CD-R that is sold (21 cents on a $1 CD). That eliminated the last moral reservations I had with copying music (now that the artists get my money anyway), and I bet one could mount a substantive legal defense if one were ever charged with copyright infringement based on that fee.
Apparently the Canadian government has underestimated/ignored the current state of human cloning technology. The issue was sent to a Royal Commission in 1989, with two bills resulting, one which was killed during the 1997 elections and the other which failed the second Commons reading.
A third attempt at legislation was introduced in Canada earlier this year that would ban:
Making clones of people
Cloning stem cells
Growing human embryos for research
Sex selection
Making changes to human DNA that would pass from one generation to the next
Creating people who have animal DNA
Buying or selling embryos, sperm, eggs or other human reproductive material
Unfortunately it seems that this legislation was killed when the parliament session was ended earlier in the fall (September, I think).
I do hope that the government someday figures out that it is time to pass the legislation first considered 13 years ago!
A decent summary on cloning laws in Canada: CBC website.
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Specifically, from the Judge's ruling: "No evidence was presented that the alleged infringers either distributed or authorized the reproduction of sound recordings. They merely placed personal copies into their shared directories which were accessible by other computer users via a P2P service."
The Conservative party could take office in the next election if enough voters actually wanted to vote for them.
The last time I checked, there were four boxes to check on my ballot. The Liberals have only been in office for so long because ... people voted for them.
Please don't confuse the Canadian system with American system. We don't hold "Presidential" elections per se; the point of an election in Canada is to elect Members of Parliament. The Prime Minister is the leader of the party that wins the most seats, and is appointed by the party. The PM is never directly elected by the general electorate.
Thus, in the last election, Jean Chretien was not elected as PM (although he was elected in his riding to the House of Commons); he was the leader of the party that was elected to the most seats. Now, Paul Martin is the leader of the Liberal party, so he is Prime Minister. I see nothing spooky about this whatsoever.
... because we all know how difficult it is to write a P2P system. [/sarcasm]
Methinks it is time to switch careers!
... literally and figuratively
Chads/Dimples in Florida, Microsoft Windows overseas ...
Looks like Bush wants to make sure he can steal^H^H^H^H^H - I mean - win the election again.
Luckily he's such a brilliant man that nobody will catch on to his plan.
Well, there goes my excuse for not being able to view corporate memos and write designs and reports at home.
Between the Door Closer and the Counselor, he neglected to mention the quantum physics prof who believes that his door is simultaneously open and closed.
The site owners deserve a slashdotting for dissing /.
Oh, wait...
It was a preemptive strike!
The ultimate solution to revive the recording industry is NOT copy-protection. Ultimately, the industry must figure out how to serve the consumer's desires (this is the basis of all business and economics practices, something that the RIAA among others must have forgotten). What other industry can produce a product that is 90% crap and 10% okay, and expect the consumer to willingly pay for all 100% of it? If this were the standard business model, our Dell computers would be running P4-2.5 GHz processors with 64K RAM and 50 MB hard drives, and we would pay $3000 for them! The recording industry must acknowledge that if consumers are not willing to pay for its product, there is something wrong with (a) the product or (b) the distribution strategy (the 90%/10% ratio). I would have no problems shelling out $20 for a CD if it had more than one or two good songs on it.
By the way, the recording industry in Canada has managed to lobby a 20% levy on each blank CD-R that is sold (21 cents on a $1 CD). That eliminated the last moral reservations I had with copying music (now that the artists get my money anyway), and I bet one could mount a substantive legal defense if one were ever charged with copyright infringement based on that fee.
Unfortunately it seems that this legislation was killed when the parliament session was ended earlier in the fall (September, I think).
I do hope that the government someday figures out that it is time to pass the legislation first considered 13 years ago!
A decent summary on cloning laws in Canada: CBC website.