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- rupertmorris, on 12/12/2007, -0/+77a cautious "w00t!"...
- Graemebru, on 12/12/2007, -1/+60***** THE CRIA!
- Chaoticfist, on 12/12/2007, -2/+52WOOT!!!! But lets not get 2 excited. We are no where near winning yet. We have barely manged to slow the bill down. Keep fighting. Also you Americans should be fighting the same ***** in your country, I m tried of American companies coming to Canada trying to force their stupid laws down my throat.
- Spudster, on 12/12/2007, -0/+32Great to see MP's take quick notice of the problems the DMCA raises! Even though I'm a Liberal, kudos to the NDP for bringing this up in parliament.
- Dumbledorito, on 12/12/2007, -0/+29This just in! A settlement has been reached!
We can file-trade, but we have to have a copy of each file in French. - Maascamp, on 12/12/2007, -0/+28Let's hope it's not just delayed.
- Chaoticfist, on 12/12/2007, -1/+28Jim Prentice(the moron who made the bill) was trying to ignore consumers and Canadians business. It took something like a couple thousand emails, letters, sent to him, the rest of the government, The media to stop this bill. Mr Prentice can go suck *****. o and BTW ***** THE CRIA!!!!!!!
- Jangles, on 12/12/2007, -0/+22Canadians,
E-mail your minister and let them know this cannot stand! I fully believe that this was delayed because of the people who vocally opposed this bill! You can e-mail Minister of Industry Jim Prentice at:
Prentice.J@parl.gc.ca
His address:
Jim Prentice
Constituency Office
Suite 105
1318 Centre St NE
Calgary, Alberta T2E 2R7
Phone numbers
Ottawa office - (613) 992-4275 Calgary office - (403) 216-7777 Minister office - (613) 995-9001
and finally here is a template letter to get you started!
http://hughmcguire.net/2007/12/04/copyright-bill-l ...
Let's make this happen! - Beeryan, on 12/12/2007, -0/+19What product are you trying to protect? The wealth of the Record Labels? By bringing your musicians/artists into another country, you are expanding their fanbase, regardless if it is downloaded or purchased. These laws, although well-intended, are very misdirected and are built around the income of the music industry, not the artists themselves.
- CheeseburgerBro, on 12/12/2007, -3/+22*****-vous le CRIA!
Vive les Torrents libres! - Chaoticfist, on 12/12/2007, -0/+14Reality is the Jim Prentice did not want to talk to consumers. He said once the bill was passed he would let consumers talk to a committee about what they did not like about the bill. Well thats not how ***** works in my bill. I want to see the bill before we decided on passing something. It does not help that out goverment is full of morons who do not understand consumers and what they want, nor does it help that the major media companies pretty much have bought Jim Prentice. I do however find it nice how the goverment was not expecting Canadians to fight this. They did not see this coming :)
- TeacherOfHeroes, on 12/12/2007, -1/+15The sad thing is that we have to keep fighting against this forever and ever. Remember bill C-60 a few years ago?
This is not the first time they've tried to pass legislation like this, and it won't be the last. They'll wait a year or so, and then they'll try again, and again, and again. They'll keep going until they wear us down. We need to slip just *once*, and they'll manage to sneak it through. - IEatHamburgers, on 12/12/2007, -1/+13"Also you Americans should be fighting the same ***** in your country, I m tried of American companies coming to Canada trying to force their stupid laws down my throat."
You're under the assumption that our politicians actually listen to us. - RogerStrong, on 12/12/2007, -0/+10Most of the money collected on the recordable media tax - the tax we pay in return for the right to copy music - goes south to the US. You're protected.
- DangerMouse9, on 12/12/2007, -0/+10You do realize that there are other countries that create great content outside of the US don't you? And by great content I mean ***** that isn't manufactured to only last two or three years then fade into a collective obscurity where everyone is embarrassed to have ever liked only to be replaced by the next manufactured piece of *****.
- kingmanic, on 12/12/2007, -0/+7It's really Michael Geist who is responsible for it's delay. His efforts to unite people in opposition to the bill pressure the conservatives to pull it.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
I'm really disappointed as a conservative that they'd even plan to allow this. It goes against everything the party was elected for. Accountability to the public means also means not having big business buy legislation that has no other purpose then to restrict the rights of Canadians to enrich the middlemen of the entertainment industry. It's not about the artist, it's all about the middle men demanding a bigger cut.
This is especially disappointing when the Conservatives and the pro-unfair copyright lobby get caught in bed together
http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com/2007/09/canadian-co ...
Very literally. - inactive, on 12/12/2007, -1/+7There's a big difference between wanting to introduce a bill and voting on passing a bill. We don't even know what the bill is.
And in any case, it's not popular at all and we don't even know what it is.
All we know for a fact is that Jim Prentice met with David Wilkins (American official) to discuss the copyright issue. He also made a public statement that the government will introduce a new spectrum and a bill.
When the bill is introduced, we will then be able to discuss it and debate about it. Because we'll know what's in it. The only people who support the bill so far are the Conservatives. They have 125 seats on 308 in Parliament. - crossmr, on 12/12/2007, -1/+7Actually if you were going to say it in French you should be translating their acronym as well. The French don't even allow those to be untainted. Its why the RCMP is the GRC to them.
- latova, on 12/12/2007, -1/+7That's okay. We'll just download it then if you won't export it to us. The police don't give a ***** up here about that.
- kev26, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6The Facebook group for more info on this is:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6315846683 - crossmr, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6We already know that the text was either heavily influenced or created by the MPAA. We really don't have to know any more.
- Jimbob200, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6Quite. I never heard of him before now, but he's not back to par in my books yet.:)
- knuckles, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6We don't. What we have however is a bunch of well funded, fast talking US lobbyists pulling the wool over the eyes of our law makers. Who the hell knows what goes through their minds, it's not like the US is going to stop taxing our beef or wood exports.
- cheesehead, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5DCMA..Go Home!!
- TeacherOfHeroes, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5Which makes his decision to introduce legislation that panders to these corporate dictators even more disturbing and upsetting
- CanadianGuy, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5At least in Canada if people make enough noise the MP's will respond, unlike the US where they just don't give a $**t. Lets keep up the pressure, if you haven't emailed AND mailed your letter do it today.
- CheeseburgerBro, on 12/12/2007, -1/+6So, you take issue with my not using the French acronym but entirely failed to call me out for using the non-existent French verb "*****"?
You need to rally your pedantry for a more even line of attack. - simplistics06, on 12/13/2007, -0/+4Blame America
- slimdizzy, on 12/12/2007, -1/+5I was already to type "I for one welcome our new copyright overlords..." this morning. But this is good news, not great but good. Great would be a fair and balanced copyright bill that was not written south of the border. Or none at all, but we can only wish. ;)
- codwif, on 12/12/2007, -0/+4looks like the copyright police edited your link so no one could use it.
- Speed, on 12/12/2007, -1/+5Then vote for someone else. Or use your second amendment and force a change. That is why you have it, no?
- slimdizzy, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3and seed both torrents too remember
- Sniperclops, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3I have emailed my MP and Prentice.
- Jimbob200, on 12/12/2007, -1/+4He's not all bad:
FTA:"[Michael Geist] does note in fairness to Prentice that the Minister has recently backed a courageous spectrum auction plan designed to spur competition in Canada, and might be persuaded to adopt a more consumer-friendly approach to copyright as well, should the government hear from enough people on the issue." - cheesehead, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3When three parties are involved in a situation and 2 secretly go into a back room and make an agreement. Who do you think gets *****?
- Seidoger, on 12/12/2007, -1/+4Haha, "*****-vous" either means "***** yourself" but in a very polite way, or asking "Do you *****?".
But I appreciate the French touch! - friedman420, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3ahh no one listens to language laws anyway.
- codwif, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2time to start using my mad singing skillz to over dub my music in french!
- slantyeyed, on 12/12/2007, -1/+3i thought canada was supposed to be cool. why do some people want to emulate the US DMCA?
- Jimbob200, on 12/12/2007, -1/+3*****-vous l'Association de L'Industrie...MUSICALE du Canada!
AIMC - Quaterni0n, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/03/01
- crossmr, on 12/12/2007, -2/+4No. It won a contest, its not in the dictionary.
- tomzx1, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2A Prentice
- pnightingale, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2dugg for word of the year
- Vigo, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2that's just stupid
- 42Vindictive, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, that was a good try, but far from swearing. Just yell something about Kebeckers and throw in tabernaque and you've got french swearing :D
- jamesdjadams, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2Write your MP if you haven't already done so concerning voting this down! I did!
- shawnz, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2you mean 'context'.
- HonoredMule, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1You can play the victim, or you can be the instrument of change.
- HonoredMule, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2vous
...then what alternative expletive phrase will they have to adopt? ;) -
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