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- Qmass, on 06/11/2008, -7/+111Harper is a traitor.
- chrgrose, on 06/12/2008, -3/+103***** THE DMCA
- SilverBlade2k, on 06/11/2008, -2/+67I wrote to my MP...not like it'll do anything though.
- LiXy, on 06/12/2008, -0/+62Use this letter wizard to send a quick letter to Prentice, Verner and Harper right now. It takes less than a minute.
http://www.ccer.ca/send-a-letter-to-harper-prentic ... - Emachine, on 06/12/2008, -0/+51WTF bro, we already pay pirate tax on blank DVDs.
- tehbored, on 06/12/2008, -0/+46For the sake of all Canadians, I hope this gets shot down.
- AnneOminous, on 06/12/2008, -0/+45Why now? StridentLobster on BoingBoing nails it:
"In a disgusting bait-and-switch, the Harper government is pushing this bill forward within 24 hours of the PM's official apology to the aboriginal victims of the Residential Schools program. They're no doubt trading on the good press they'll be receiving for their involvement with this wide-scale human rights investigation to ram through this damaging legislation. It takes a special kind of contempt for the public to pull this kind of stunt." - linuxpenguin, on 06/12/2008, -0/+43Dear Canada, neighbor to the North, land of the 19-years drinking age,
Why? - iCallShotgun, on 06/12/2008, -1/+43*****, this bill is such ***** *****.
***** the DMCA. ***** Jim Prentice. - Jorin, on 06/11/2008, -0/+39"It is becoming all too clear that to the Harper Government ‘Canadian sovereignty’ simply means a piece of (valuable) real estate; real estate worth defending to the tune of billions. Canadian Cultural Sovereignty clearly has no value to this government." From the Appropriation Art website. Very well said.
Boingboing also featured a video of Jim Prentice gabbing like a clown and cracking jokes while an NDP MP tried to get him to account for his actions regarding the copyright bill. How can a minority government have this kind of power? Where is the rest of our opposition? Charlie Angus can't do it all himself. - desigi, on 06/12/2008, -1/+40This is absurd. This bill will make me a criminal for using my iPod. Chances are no one will notice the law being passed because the Conservatives are trying to slip this by as quickly as possible.
- Jorin, on 06/11/2008, -0/+38Here is the list of issues from the liberal website:
* In Summary
* Our Economy
* Our Environment
* Our Families
* Our Communities
* Health Care
* Agriculture and Rural Canada
* Aboriginal Peoples
* Women in Politics
* Canada in the World
Frankly I don't have enough faith in the liberal party to bother digging through their website to find their stance on free speech, copyright, technology and the internet. The news of this bill isn't anywhere on the front page either. From that i'd guess their stance on copyright and technology is "duuurrrr, darrrrghhh." - kbattack, on 06/12/2008, -1/+37DIGGERS!
If your Canadian and you VOTE, dont just send the old standard message that has been prepared (although it is well done I must say)! If you care then take 2 minutes and type a personal message and fill Prentice's email till it over flows. Heres and example of what I sent the A hole,
So Jim,
You think you can slip the bill to amend the Copyright Act in just before the (long overdue) apology to First Nations for residential schools? Well guess what, those Canadians that are connected to and informed about the internet (see: several million) are actually paying attention. This legislation that will follow the American style DMC Act is selling out Canadians and Canadian entrepreneurs so you and the conservatives can please our big neighbours to the South. I have written my MP and I hope this legislation does not go through. And if it does, remember, we use the internet (you should learn a bit more about it before you introduce bills) and we VOTE. So, hopefully those in Calgary Centre-North are aware of your proposed legislation, I know my cousins who live there are. I think they are going to tell their friends.....and maybe they will tell their friends......and maybe you wont have a seat next election. Good Luck,
-KB
Voter, Proud Canadian, Internet User, Supporter of Canadian Products - kuz2r, on 06/11/2008, -2/+34Please help, does Canada has Bury button somehwere so we can Bury Jim Prentice
- inactive, on 06/12/2008, -0/+30Can I wake up one morning without worrying what to do next in my life? Can I?
...
Contact Jim
Constituency Office
Suite 105
1318 Centre St NE
Calgary, Alberta T2E 2R7
403 216-7777
Fax 403 230-4368
Prentice.J@parl.gc.ca - inactive, on 06/12/2008, -1/+28I personally will now go out of my way to download as much music as possible through http dll's like rapidshare.
My main goal is to suck up ISP bandwidth since they ***** us over with bandwidth capping and to ensure that jim prentice and his "Canadian" DMCA fails.
I hate the Conservatives. Jack Layton or Stephan Dion need to be our next prime minister. Both are green and represent a lot of what we truly value and care about, Conservatives are the USA puppets.
The sad part is, I emailed my MP (a conservative :'( ) and I received a BS reply. Read it here: http://paste-it.net/public/q45e3a5/
Typical conservative response, they never answer the question or address the issue but they can make it look like they have addressed all of my concerns. - montrealcalling, on 06/11/2008, -0/+27What is the liberal party's stance on this?
- MikeonTV, on 06/12/2008, -0/+24so we should all start using Peer Guardian 2 for real now?
- johnlandes, on 06/12/2008, -0/+22I believe that Dion is still hiding under his desk
- megagram, on 06/12/2008, -0/+2218 years in some provinces, even! But seriously, I agree. Why!?!
I hate it when incompetent, greedy, selfish people get ahold of a country's leadership. - stinkypyper, on 06/12/2008, -0/+21What a crock of *****. You know the ISP's are gonna use this an excuse to shape the ***** out of the traffic. Try torrenting Ubuntu and they come knock on your door.
- DarkStryke, on 06/12/2008, -1/+22Our country is run by a Bush wannabe, ***** the conservatives and ***** James Moore
- blankoboy, on 06/12/2008, -6/+26Way to go Canada, totally bending over and letting America f*ck in your tight ass. F-ing Pussy a-hole Canadian politicians would sail the Canadian populace up the river for a chance to suck Uncle Sam's sausage.
- bryxal, on 06/12/2008, -0/+19Not True! I worked with an MPs office. and a deluge of thoughtful letters all got read and the MP took notice of the bills that his constituents sent letters on. The only way to change is to send letters and emails and phone calls and get all your friends and family to do it to. Get your parents to send a letter.
- Coded1, on 06/12/2008, -0/+17Every body, write your MP and paste the message and the name of the MP it was sent to, if using email try to use your real address (don't post it though) it will make the point clearer.
I'm just using a copy pasta from below http://www.ccer.ca/send-a-letter-to-harper-prentic ...
Here's to you Mr. Paul Szabo
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Dear Mr. P, Szabo,
I am disturbed that the Government will move forward in the coming days and introduce copyright reform legislation that has been engineered without proper public consultation and without adhering to its own accountability mandates by failing to table the WIPO treaties for a period of 21 sitting days before introducing the legislation for which these treaties provide the framework for modernizing Canadian Copyright laws.
It is not too late to reconsider the dangerous approach currently being taken to copyright reform in Canada. As a concerned Canadian consumer and voter, I urge you to enshrine the following principles in the Copyright Act:
Any amendments to the Copyright Act must not prohibit the development and manufacturing of circumvention devices and technologies, commercial trade of circumvention devices and technologies, the possession and/or utilization of any device or technology that can circumvent a TPM or DRM for a non-infringing purpose or otherwise lawful activity such as fair dealing, interoperability, time and format shifting.
The Copyright Act should be amended to bring the backup copy provision into the 21st century by expanding the right to make an archival backup copy to all digital consumer products regardless of format or media.
Amendments to the Copyright Act seeking to add provisions relating to the liability of Internet intermediaries and subscriber actions should take a “notice and notice” approach that will provide the best balance between the protection of intellectual property rights and the fundamental rights of individual and academic expression.
Amendments to the Copyright Act need to ensure that statutory damages are limited and users must be protected from statutory damages if the user has good-faith to believe their use of the protected work was fair and non-infringing, or if the user is engaged in purely private and non-commercial activity.
Sincerely,
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Mootabolife, on 06/12/2008, -0/+16In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 comment(s) from this page.
- Jareth86, on 06/12/2008, -3/+19What the ***** Canada; how could you let this happen? Get off your hockey watching asses and protest this *****!!
- LinuxChild, on 06/12/2008, -0/+15And to think this idiot Jim Prentice is getting paid for this ***** when Canada's got much bigger problems to deal with.
- ultraJesus, on 06/12/2008, -1/+16This computer has so much pirated crap on it I'm probably going to have to microwave the hard drive and buy a new one.
- Walker2323, on 06/12/2008, -1/+14Then you're a tool. And partially to blame for this.
- Makr, on 06/12/2008, -0/+13Thing that bothers me is that most canadian bands are against this act.
- gavinonymous, on 06/12/2008, -0/+13If this becomes law will we drop all the copyright royalties we pay on blank media, dvd's cd's hard drives etc? There is an effective 'tax' on these products as it is.
What deterrent effect will this law have on anyone buying a CD, or renting a DVD, bringing it round to several friends houses and letting them rip it before returning it?
The point is - the content cannot be protected by law. This law would discriminate against one method of transferring copyright material only and probably wouldn't stand up in court. Our government decided that it was the medium that stores the content that can be taxed for royalties - and we have a system in place that works well now to compensate for the loss of income due to copying. (Didn't we already go through this with cassettes and VHS?)
Also, since when do Conservatives believe in regulating the free market? i-tunes is doing well, and movie receipts have never been higher. The argument that file sharing displaces a sale is bunk. The exact opposite is true; file sharing increases sales and performance royalties by increasing exposure. - ZimbuTheMonkey, on 06/12/2008, -0/+11*****... I better get out of here quickly then...
- mindracer, on 06/12/2008, -1/+12in responce to ronaldst post, bloc quebecois are seperatists (what to seperate from canada) and NDP are socialists, for those interested in knowing the facts.
- johnlandes, on 06/12/2008, -0/+11Considering that they have a minority government, they seem to get a lot of this ***** through since the liberals are too ***** scared to challenge anything. The only thing that we can hope for is the senate delaying things until the Con's get taken back out
- dark_helmet, on 06/12/2008, -2/+13We could just dump him in Quebec then destory the bridges, it would solve two problems at once.
- krnldmp, on 06/12/2008, -0/+11The "first world" governments are getting Way out of control.
- laserblazer, on 06/12/2008, -0/+10The governments of the world have united against their peoples.
- aidave, on 06/12/2008, -1/+10God damned Conservatives. Canadians should be ashamed for voting for them.
- marmotman, on 06/12/2008, -0/+9I wouldn't be as mad if they hadn't shot down the bill to legalize weed... or to raise minimum wage or to stop cutting down trees here in BC or maybe if they killed the bill to raise the earnings of the liberals... Screw it I'm gonna go smoke my emotions away
- GrammerPants, on 06/12/2008, -0/+9Anyone have a link to the actual law and all it's specifics?
Obviously this is a bad thing but what is it covering specificly and how is it worded. - RSS14, on 06/12/2008, -3/+12Harper is a failure. He looks likes a prick too. ***** *****.
- ntdesign, on 06/12/2008, -0/+9It still needs to be voted on, what are the chances of this getting through?
- PopcornDave, on 06/12/2008, -1/+9Canadians need to send them a message by contacting the advertisers of any media outlet that plays music and inform them that you are not going to buy the products advertised on their programs if this kind of crap continues. The only way to stop it, since brain dead politicians don't seem to be able to muster a collective thought between them, is to hurt the other manufacturers so that *they* go after the music industry.
Cut off a revenue source to one group and watch how fast they jump the ***** of the group affecting them. - TrevorPace, on 06/12/2008, -9/+17Because there are a lot of idiot farmers and people from Alberta who voted for the Conservatives. And the Liberals don't have the balls to stand up to them.
- Linake, on 06/12/2008, -2/+10Run DMC[A]!
- skidooer, on 06/12/2008, -0/+8Hey now. I'm a Canadian farmer. I listen to my downloaded MP3s on my iPod while I'm in the tractor so I am definitely against this.
- gannondork, on 06/12/2008, -0/+8We can't were still in shock that Detroit won another cup!
- TheLostChild1, on 06/12/2008, -2/+9*sigh*
As a Canadian, I'm super disappointed in this news.
Really sad to hear :( -
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