This is not new at all -- When Watt improved Newcome's steam engine and eventually conceived of making it double-acting (pressure driven in both directions), he needed to convert the motion of the rocking beam into straight-line motion. Unfortunately, in order to avoid patent rights already claimed by another party, on the use of the crank and cross-head, he adopted an epicyclic sun and planet gear system, only later reverting once the patent rights had expired to the more familiar crank seen on most engines today.
Canada is so afraid of losing its "culture", whatever that is, that the pols will always listen to something pitched that way. That, and as duhblow7 said: $$
While the USA is busy fighting terrorists the world over, it seems to me that the activities and tactics of the RIAA are nothing short of legal terrorism - "God is on their side" in their view and therefore anything goes.
On the post: Make Some Software Better, Get Arrested For Copyright Infringement
"Felony interference with a business model"
On the post: EMI Might Not Like The RIAA Very Much
On the post: Recording Industry Still Has Canadian Politicians In Its Pocket
Why? -- Simple
On the post: RIAA Misses No Opportunity To Act Like A Bully
Legal Terrorism
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