Flick Harrison on Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:53:46 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Canuck MP shilling for music industry |
Canada's copyright battles are in a holding pattern while Canada stumbles through 3 successive minority governments in almost 7 years. It's a hot potato that won't be sorted until someone has a safe majority to risk the bruising online guerre-a-outrance that would inevitably ensue. The Conservatives, now in power, really need their Guy-Fawkes blogaholic demographic firmly onside, in order to strangle every Liberal social program in its crib, and those people would be very leery of a DMCA-style bill in Canada... but that's exactly what's coming, whether the Conservatives or Liberals take power. Neither side can really admit that or even address it directly. The NDP is always wary of staking any new turf that suggests them once again to be bug-eyed communists in the opinion of the corporate press. Here's a good article by Michael Geist about the lawsuit against ISOhunt, which I didn't know was proudly Canadian. ISOhunt launched a court action to get a ruling that their torrent-search site was operating within Canadian law (!), and the recording industry used the opportunity to launch their own suit for damages against ISOhunt. |
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