Comments on: Hollywood’s Canadian MP

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:49:35 +0000

There were people who knew about this back in 1994-1998 when this was happening in the USA. The problem is that getting people excited about these things and getting them involved in politics is quite hard. This is especially true of technology law where far too many technical people are “technological determinists” who believe that the laws of the land don’t matter, and that they can just “route around bad laws”.

We need to fix this in ourselves. Having Canada have different laws than those promoted by the USTR (Remember: Don’t let Canadians be anti-US as it is not like it is American citizens that are doing this stupidity, but an unelected set of government agencies from an unelected government — don’t get me started on voting machine anomolies in recent US “elections”).

Anyone in the Toronto area or that knows someone in the Toronto area should be pointing them to the Bulte issue. There is a very close race between her and Peggy Nash, so if everyone with an interest in this issue convinced people to vote strategically for Ms. Nash it would make a huge difference (Note: I don’t normally support strategic voting, but until we have a modernized electoral system in Canada it is hard to avoid it. If only people who voted strategically did the research to be voting strategically for –or against– someone who had a chance of winning).

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:40:56 +0000

I sent a message to all the party leaders, and to the candidates in my riding of Ottawa South.

HTML version
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/1664

Text version that contains the party leader email addresses
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/discuss/6001

I have received a response from one party leader so far, but if everyone who reads this sends a similar message to their candidates and the party leaders, we might be able to push this issue such that they will all take the pledge. Please send me copies of any messages you might get back.

Watch the “Canada Votes 2006″ BLOG on Digital-copyright.ca for any pledges I receive.
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/election2006/blog

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:42:07 +0000

In every “democracy” in the world, there are usually two major political parties. The LameScream press usually emphasise relatively few “important issues” with which these main parties use to attack each other. The public is then decieved into voting for one of these parties over the others. The major partie in most countries where voting is allowed are usually funded by the same groups. To really achieve true reform, people need to reasearch and vote for the lessor known candidate of lessor known parties. This is as simple as getting a copy of a sample ballot from an area and researching each candidate (and party) via the Internet. Until people quit swallowing the LameScream crap hook line and sinker, we will continue to vote for people from the same lame and corrupt political parties.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:23:05 +0000

Where was all the posting of news when this crap was being pulled in the US? It is exaclty the same sort of thing that was pulled here.

There was next to nothing in the line of debate on it, there was no asking for or representing of the public in the copyright issues or the DMCA passage.

It is after all the reason for copyright to exist in the first place. The limited protection time before the copyright becomes public domain. A “limited protection time” that has become perverted in its length to the point that nothing is making it to public domain.

While money is talking, it is apparent that the greatest thieves and crooks set in positions of power to make laws. The victim is nothing short of the public that voted them into that position of power.