IFPI Complains That Canada's New Copyright Bill Not Draconian Enough
from the make-it-worse! dept
Perhaps not a surprise, but Michael Geist points us to the news that the IFPI is complaining that Canada's new copyright bill doesn't go far enough in protecting its obsolete business model:"The publishing of this bill is only the beginning of a process, and some of its provisions must be amended in order to bring Canada in line with its international treaty obligations as well as evolving international norms. As it is, it simply does not go far enough to protect creators and producers in the digital environment."This is despite the fact that Canada already has numerous draconian copyright provisions, extremely limited exceptions and a blank media tax that already assumes most Canadians are criminals. But, this is the recording industry we're talking about. They won't be satisfied until absolutely everything it doesn't control is locked down.
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P2P still isn't a capital crime
Of course, none of these laws are going to make people buy more music CD's. The lack of laws does allow IFPI to continue to justify its existence and give industry execs a scapegoat for running their businesses into the ground.
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"obsolete business model"
It's *you* who haven't got your "models" right. We no longer live in a country where civil rights are even preserved; those are all being monetized in standard statist ways: prisons, police, "security" agencies, copyright holders with granted "rights" that the government enforces, all rely on unlimited force being turned against individuals.
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Re: "obsolete business model"
Of course, monopolies work for the monopolist. I would love a monopoly on the sale of hamburgers. Do you know who it doesn't work for though? The consumer.
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Re: Re: "obsolete business model"
You've probably innocently mentioned a wish that set me off, so I'm going to violate my own rule of not commenting more than once a day on a topic. -- And to an Anonymous Coward.
Your longing for a monopoly is reprehensible. It's stating you wish government *force* to be used against your fellow humans for your *unearned* benefit. I could go on, but doubt that you're serious. -- However, others *are* serious and actually *do* more than wish, and if successful, overcome all civilized inclinations so that conscience doesn't nag them, and turn blind eyes to the suffering they inflict. Money and power are corrupting, and doesn't take much of either to be *absolutely* corrupted.
As said, I'm a Populist. I only want reasonable limits placed on what I *know* by all human history are corrupting to anyone's soul, and consequently, a direct hazard to me and all decent people who just want to *trade* labor with equals, not be exploited for the gain of a few who crave only POWER. History is mostly a record of tyranny. We've been living in *the* most unusual period of human history ever, due to freedom won from tyrants, but new ones (and many of the old ones) are now turning otherwise wonderful technology into computerized control of slaves.
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If you give a thief an inch he will take a mile. A criminal always wants more. No amount of legislative subsidies is enough to satisfy these criminals.
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Okay...
"The publishing of this bill is only the beginning of a process, and some of its provisions must be amended"
Interesting. I've never actually heard an evil motherfucker come right out and SAY they were engaged in a feature creep. Awesome. Because that's all this can be. You draft and pass legislation based on a negotiated medium between many sides and many other sides....and then one side says, "this is only the start, we're going to change much of this to the way we want it"? WTF? What would they say if those representing consumer rights said, "Yeah, this bill passed, but no worries cuz we're going to strike most of this bullshit in a couple of years"?
"to bring Canada in line with its international treaty obligations"
BWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH.....ass hats....
"as well as evolving international norms."
Sigh, sanity, finally! That's what international law SHOULD be, a representation and enforcement of what is normal throughout the world. Which means, of course, that copyright laws should be reviewed and mostly gutted, because the international norm is for people with the means to do so to pirate music, movies, and games.
"As it is, it simply does not go far enough to protect creators and producers in the digital environment."
Back to the feature creep, because otherwise they never would have signed on to this supposedly inadequate law.
Okay, enough anger, I've got a parade to prepare for tomorrow. Wait...what's that next story coming up? an H1N1 government and industry collusion on a level far beyond Rumsfeld and his FDA bullshit? Uh oh....
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By any chance are you from Chicago? Congratulations. Hey maybe the Cubs will win the world series too? :-)
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they are' guilty guilty guilty.!"
well said.
for or agisnt us, manitory or forbideen and guilty,
g,g g! ( as comnpared to iii and ooo. immortal, invun, invic,/ omi coznat, present and potant)
luckers with the pararde.
death to the gammar nazguls.. (what's a nazgul like you, etc)
packrat
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Who cares?
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A thought experiment
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I think this sums it up
Jack Johnson: "And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough."
-Futurama
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i say
fic your own regions problems and don't interfere
I vote we have new lobbying law that anytime a foreign organization mouths off like this , we execute all people they are associated with....yea GREEN PEACE it also means you
only canucks have a say in there own affairs, so once again
FUCK OFF
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what intenet spee ddid you have 14 years ago in canada
675Kbytes down and 400Kbytes up with rogers
its of course unlimited but now today what do we have ?
500Kbytes and 80Kbytes upspeed
canada is doing far less and when you consider were a meager nation of 33 million
ifpi is all so upset at us when they have 500 million and th eusa has 350 million
take all there "pirates" combines and it prolly more then canada total population times 5
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I would like to know what Phantom mathematics they use to get those numbers.
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