p2pnet - rss feed: Hannah Montana and the Canadian DMCA
p2pnet news | Freedom:- “Oh, great,” says a headline in the MacLeans blog.
“Now Marjory LeBreton (right) will never be my Facebook friend.”
Why not? Because, “I have been asked about Facebook before,” another MacLeans post has her declaring, going on unequivocally >>>
I never look at Facebook because I do not understand the technology. I think the concept is dangerous.
In the first item, Kady O’Malley quotes NDP digital culture spokesman Charlie Angus, to wit, “we finally have an insight into Conservative thinking on digital innovation.”
Then he goes after industry minister Jim Prentice over the US “arm-twisting to enact a DMCA-style copyright Act,” says the post;
“Are millions of Canadian Internet users a threat?” - it has Angus asking. “Because that seems to be the latest thinking behind the copyright trial balloon that would oppose a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy for home Internet users.
“Such zero tolerance for innovation might go down like gangbusters with the DMCA lobby, but does the minister think it is really going to fly with educators, innovators and consumers?”
Prentice says the new copyright bill, “will be introduced when myself and my colleague are prepared to introduce it to the House.”
Angus retorts >>>
The minister is going to throw out some crumbs to the public like telling them they are not going to be arrested if they time-shift their TV shows. However, if their kids download a Hannah Montana ditty or they change the locks on their iPhones they are going to get busted. That is the DMCA.
We need to start separating issues of fair use from counterfeit. We need to bring WIPO into the House for debate and we need to say that the United States ambassador is not the only one who has a right to decide what Canadian copyright legislation we have.
My question is: Why has the minister not brought the WIPO treaty into the House for debate before bringing forward new copyright legislation?
Prentice asnwers, “the bill will be introduced in due course and will be introduced once the appropriate balance has been struck between consumers and industrial consumers as well.”
Industrial consumers, eh? Cool phrase. Now, who would they be? - one wonders.
Here’s a video of the exchanges:
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MacLeans - Oh, great - now Marjory LeBreton will never be my Facebook friend, May 15, 2008
MacLeans - Senator Marjory LeBreton is now (not) your friend, May 11, 2008
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May 16th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Wow, they didn’t have much to say on that video.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
thats cause the CONservatives always deflect and reaim an attack instead of actually answering anyhting which is why there poll numbers havent gone anywhere and it looks more like both they and the liberals are losing ground to ALL the other parties.
AND heres one for you all if you ever get a call about politics etc, pretend to be or act like a liberal, ask who is calling first actually. if its liberals pretend to side there way, if its CONservative go that route.
muck up the pollsters bigtime maybe we’ll get an election quicker.
personally i either will vote NDP or green. WHY? I haven’t voted in 20 years and htis time round i am sufficiently aggrivated to SMACK the so called wannabe ruling parties.
look at saskatchewan as to whats really going on in canada ( a liberal/conservative joined party governing barely beats a NDP only gov’t).