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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. |
Well, of course...it is ALWAYS the fault of those wacky Canookians!! I mean even John Candy declared war on them...
BTW, I did get your reference just from the title...and the irony/sarcasm (I always get those two bass ackwards...
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BTW, anyone who has ever shipped merchandise to Canada knows it's a Canadian national sport to try and frustrate Canada Post so extending that to copyright stuff is not a huge stretch of the "imagination"...
Soooo, suuurrrre, let's just always BLAME CANADA....
Anyone who doubts this needs to google:
Canada aircraft history AVRO arrow
You can toss in Aykroyd as well to get the movie, which was really fun btw...
Then watch the movie The Arrow (or there has to be a book as well)...so, yup gotta blame them there Canookians...and Red Green of course.