Blame Canada!

[CW001]

Heh. The funny thing is I had just read this post:

http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/...calls-for.html

before jumping over to mobileread.

[llreader]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

Actually Tray Parker and Matt Stone are both native US citizens.

Ouch! They are? Then I am remembering my Canadians wrong. I wonder who I was thinking of?

[llreader]

Originally Posted by CW001

Heh. The funny thing is I had just read this post:

http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/...calls-for.html

before jumping over to mobileread.

lol, yes, the Ars article mentions that they want Canada to keep all the parts of their laws that are harsher than US law, and tighten the screws on the "weak" parts.

In all seriousness, the efforts to homogenize legal systems for the benefit of corporate IP are getting pervasive enough that it is frightening as well as obnoxious.

[yvanleterrible]

This is an example of how things are done throughout this site.

This is a quotation mark

[delphidb96]

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

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by delphidb96

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

Heh!
You'd be shooting yourselves in the foot. MR's main servers are in Troglodyte Canada!

[CleverClothe]

Hmmm, looks like we need to go down to R&D. We are going to need more firepower than a CLUEx4 can muster to deal with these companies.

[brecklundin]

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... )

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.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

If you want to separate what you say from what others say put quotation marks...

I just noticed your avatar has a major error to it... MobileRead is a forum, not a blog.

[yvanleterrible]

Anyone else wanna kick me in the troglodytes?

[Ben Thornton]

Originally Posted by brecklundin

it's a Canadian national sport to try and frustrate Canada Post

There's an old joke about the Canadian post: 5c for postage, 20c for storage.

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Anyone else wanna kick me in the troglodytes?

Just joining the queue now

[delphidb96]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Heh!
You'd be shooting yourselves in the foot. MR's main servers are in Troglodyte Canada!

Yet Another Reason To Suspect Canookistani Fowl Play!

Derek (First Speaker for the Association to Prevent Fowl Play)

[yvanleterrible]

Lucky fer me I live in the country of Quebec!

[delphidb96]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Lucky fer me I live in the country of Quebec!

Ah yes. Our (People's Republic of Kalifourkneeyah) northern cousin, the FPRQ (Francophonic People's Republic of Quebec). Never been there but friends who've visited say that I wouldn't be able to distinguish it from home - well, except for the cold.

Derek