Recording Industry Keeps Quiet About Canadian IsoHunt Lawsuit; Didn't Want To Admit Canada Has Strong Copyright
from the funny-how-that-works dept
Michael Geist has the news that last year, at some point, the recording industry filed a lawsuit against IsoHunt in Canada. There's already been an ongoing lawsuit against IsoHunt in the US, but not too many people realized there was a similar lawsuit in Canada. And that's for a specific reason: the recording industry did their best to keep it quiet. The lawsuit was filed just a few weeks before Canada's latest attempt at copyright reform was put forth and a big part of the narrative for why such a law was needed was because Canadian copyright laws weren't strong enough to go after a site like IsoHunt. So, making a big stink about a lawsuit -- under those existing copyright laws -- against IsoHunt would have hurt that story... Of course, this raises the question: if existing copyright laws were strong enough, why did politicians and industry lobbyists claim they were not?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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I wonder perhaps if it will take a massive rally (à la Tunisia & Egypt) to get the US Wall Street-oriented power structure turned back around to "for the people, by the people."
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Thats one of my favorite methods for winning. :) Don't play by their rules.
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I will conquer the world with my tools
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1) become informed
2) stop buying the product and services of any companies involved with those lobbyists
3) get everyone you know to stop buying the products and services of any companies involved with those lobbyists
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It's true their attack on their own customers has obviously got to be Kamikaze, and eventually they will die, but they are going to screw us irrevocably first.
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Nice idea, but it'll never work.
Number 1, 'become informed':
Always a good idea.
Number 2, 'stop buying the product and services of any companies involved with those lobbyists'
First problem, unless you run off into the mountains (desert) and live an entirely self sufficient existance you can't avoid lobbiests. The only companies that don't utilize lobiests, wish they were big enough to hire a few. If you managed to only buy products from companies that don't have lobiests, they would just pass laws making it illegal _not_ to do business with them. (You think I'm joking, then you haven't been paying attention. Think Apple & appstore or Bose suing resellers.)
Number 3, 'get everyone you know to stop buying the products and services of any companies involved with those lobbyists'
See answer to number 2.
The only way to stop lobbiests are to have our government represent the people and do what's best for the country as a whole. This would be a marked change from the current system of padding their own bank accounts.
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Why would he owe musicares $500? Show us the judgment from a court that the seizures were argued at trial and declared legal.
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Or are you from the Fox News ideology of news: make shit up and yell until it sinks in. 'cause it ain't working here, bud.
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Canada is one of the biggest trading partners with the US, and I think they will realize that they sort of need to get in line with overall policy, rather than being a haven for file traders (and war deserters...)
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It certainly isn't doing anything to lower piracy, is it? Well, possibly to re-classify file trading as not being piracy, because it's has been taxed into legal status.
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And that's a very valid point - if one taxes an illegalm act, does it not, therefore, become legal? OR is that just governmental doublespeak?
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I agree it isn't doing anything to lower piracy, as I said, it is basically useless, but thats ok, we are doing fine on that front. The DMCA, ridiculous lawsuits, 3 strikes and all that other crap isn't doing anything to lower piracy either.
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Notice both distributing in any way for trade and communicating to the public not allowed.
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(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the act
described in that subsection is done for the purpose
of doing any of the following in relation to
any of the things referred to in paragraphs
(1)(a) to (c):
(a) selling or renting out, or by way of trade
exposing or offering for sale or rental;
(b) distributing, whether or not for the purpose
of trade;
(c) communicating to the public by telecommunication;
or
(d) performing, or causing to be performed,
in public.
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As always.
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