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Originally Posted by llreader
This is great! The IIPA (the umbrella group for the RIAA et al) has released a report that says, among other things, that "no other country is farther behind the curve in combating copyright infringement in cyberspace."
They suggest that Canada be included with Russia and China, be on the "priority watch list", even above the regular "watch list", which includes places like Uzbekistan.
Honestly, knowing that this server is in the Great White North, just posting here makes me feel dirty...
The report suggests that the US government put the screws to you Canadians, pressuring for changes in Canadian law like removing caps on damages and outlawing circumvention of DRM for legal uses.
EDIT: Whoops! Looks like they either took the document down, or screwed up the link. The download page is here. More information from Ars Technica.
EDIT2: To avoid any confusion, the title of this thread makes reference to the "Blame Canada!" song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7UKllR0Edo - a cartoon <EDIT>not</EDIT> done by Canadians, BTW), and is intended as a joke, to point out the absurdity of singling out Canada, with its perfectly reasonable laws, as some sort of failed, pirate state. As in "Things aren't going the way you want? Hmm, I know, BLAME CANADA!" Apparently this was somewhat unclear to some posters. |
I always knew there was something wrong with them sneaky, dirty, frozen Canucks!
(Seriously, how can *anyone* hate a country that has a maple leaf on their flag!
)
So all we have to do is carpet-nuke Canada and the 'e-book piracy' problem disappears? You mean all those underhanded Eastern European e-book piracy sites will fold if Canada ceases to exist? Have at it!
Yeah. Right.
Not!
Derek