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p2pnet news view Politics | Freedom | P2P:- Listen to, watch and read the lamescream print and electronic media and you could be forgiven to thinking that’s all there is.
That’s certainly the way the owners of the corporate press corps would like it to be, but that’s the way it isn’t, as at least two leading Canadian politicians have recognized.
New Democrat digital culture spokesman Charlie Angus has net neutrality and copyright right at the top of his agenda, and Green Party leader Elizabeth May acknowledges P2P (people to people) Power helped in a major way to overturn the vested interests decision to bar her from the upcoming televised debates.
But Stephen Harper believes are only two elements of importance in the upcoming Canadian federal election.
Stephen Harper.
The World Wide Web? What’s that? Net Neutrality? Some quirky cyber thingy. Copyright? Easy. Every time you copy something, you pay one of a corporate entertainment and/or software companies. Right?
But apparently George W. Harper and his minions believe thatonly applies to others. Not to them.
“Dear Overzealous Web Designer in the Basement of the Conservative War Room,” says a post on blog.macleans.ca.
It goes on »»»
Hi! I know you’re probably busy dealing with the — uh, bandwidth issues that brought down DionBook (still readable - for now - via googlecache), but I just wanted to let you know about another potential headache-in-the-making over at notaleader.ca.
You know that line about how it’s better to seek forgiveness than ask permission? That’s actually not always the case — not when you’re talking about, say, copyright — which is something that you’d think the Conservatives would have learned by now.
Yet, on your create-your-own-ad flash thingy, there are all sorts of video snippets from various networks - CTV, CBC, TVO and possibly others - but I can’t find anywhere that it says that material is being used with permission.
In fact, there’s nothing to indicate where the footage came from at all - which is required if you were planning to use the ‘fair dealing’ exemption, although it’s hard to see how this qualifies as “criticism or review.”
Did you just forget to add that information? Did it get accidentally removed when you took down the puffin? Or are we heading towards another one of those copyright oopsies moments that seem to crop up with surprising frequency when y’all try to get down with your bad multimedia-user-content-generating selves?
Anyway, hope you’re having a fab Day Five! Can’t be worse than Day Three, right?
ITQ
PS Say hi to The Ghost of Sir Charles Tupper for me!
So what’s it all about?
“This time it isn’t Bill C-61,” posts Michael Geist.
“Instead, the Conservatives website faces claims of copyright infringement and demands to take down content.”
(Thanks, Luvie)
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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September 12th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
“… and Green Party leader Elizabeth May acknowledges P2P (people to people) Power helped in a major way to overturn the vested interests decision to bar her from the upcoming televised debates.”
Yes, and the very next day starts demanding that political bloggers remove a video of her calling Canadians “stupid” by threatening them with legal action:
http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/09/12/from-the-overzealous-staffer-files-really-green-party-this-isnt-a-contest-you-want-to-win/
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2008/09/leave-leftdog-alone/
http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/09/green-party-of-canada-threatens-buckdog.html
How’s that for P2P Power…
September 12th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
well tell ma n pa , to go get jed, the clampitts need a new look er website, cause one wesse gots don’t be right…
September 13th, 2008 at 1:43 am
i wonder what the canadian position is ON foreign govt ips snooping on canadian citizens as was just logged by me.
Lets see
so far i showed the google browser problem a number of other issues, ive pointed out how to get safe and secure and save canada 1.8billion by geting away form MS products and the NSA spy holes , and what do i get some NSA ip range pops over for a look.
I wonder whom i would pass such inforamtion along , too.
At my website do you see anything illegal?
I don’t.
my pre 1958 movies are on an external drive that is as they say levied media.
So piss off or if your going to violate canadian privacy laws maybe we should do the same.
Maybe we should all in the world band together and say to america, FUCK OFF.
GO away and put up a giant wall around your stupid country and the rest of the world will move along without you.
P.S. YES ill block the range , YEs ill block a lot more ranges.
As you know i was also the gu ythat exposed a huge set of there ranges that many didnt know either.
I’ll continue to fight FOR
TRUTH JUSTICE and the NON AMERICAN WAY/up yours have a nice damn day.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:14 am
excuse me but did she actually say that or was it a mde u pthing cause ill tel you to take it down
AND ill add the above user , is not telling the thruth and as is stated it is slanderous.
It is aiding and abetting a crime to do so.
UPDATE:
As a result of threats of legal action by the Green Party of Canada against this blogsite, I have removed the video pending legal advice from my solicitor.
NOW heres the question for the blogger, why would a lawyer tell you to take it down unless you had not violated the law, and as no one can view the video, we can only surmise you tried to find a way to make those words appear.
Ive been taken odd time out of context as well, there is nothign like some noob trying to twist words for his 2 seocnds of lime light
BOOO hooo on bucky the dead dog.
your irrelivant anyways.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:20 am
In the TVO clip, Elizabeth May clearly says “they” think Canadians
are stupid, referring to the opinions of some politicians. She then
turns to the questioner and agrees with HIS assessment that a carbon
tax is essential. No spin can change that.
IN OTHER words : shes saying that others( as in liberals and conservative politicians) think canadians are stupid and this noob turns it into a big deal.
Ya know honestly if the rest of us can’t see that , we are all stupid.