Well it was bound to happen sooner or later. The USTR, a cabinet-level post, which has been making unpleasant noises in Canada’s direction for several years, placed
Canada on a “Priority Watch List” today. Like around the Bush Admin years is when they really started bitching to Canada doing their song and dance about how this country “is a haven for piracy” and all that normal BS that are pressured by the copyright overlords to spew out on command. Even though the largely ironic thing is they give their Chinese masters a large pass because they own a majory of the USA already. They are on this list too but the USA are pusses to the Asians over this crap.
The stuff they have outlined of what they want Canada to do to “help” (read: getting fucked by them to being an obedient little sub division country of the USA) them goes from the stupid to outright pointless that most people in Canada will put a fight up and make a lot of saber noise against our government if they decide to bend over and take it. That it’s very highly likely they will do that because just about everybody in Canada knows the Right likes to be butt buddies with corporations for one reason or another. Anyways here’s the stuff they have listed out what they want Canada to do and I’m also going to give some facts on it as well on why it will be a fail on their part.
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Enact legislation outlawing game circumvention devices, such as “mod chips” and “game copiers,” in line with Canada’s international treaty obligations
This is the rule that those fuckers from the ESA (Entertainment Software Association) have been trying to push in every country for a long time. Even though they don’t address the fact that even their own company’s they lobby for uses in modified ways like did you know that The Sonic Collection on Windows runs a modified version of Gens under the hood? So what the ESA wants is a pile of failboat right there and they should not even be taken seriously. They are a self-serving organization that needs to sputter and die, as well as the RIAA and MPAA. Only good thing they have going for them is fighting the stupid’s of gaming like Jack Thompson and idiot lawmakers. Other then that they are captain of failboat.
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Create adequate legal incentives for internet service providers (ISPs) to work with copyright owners in combating online piracyI’m surprised they are trying this again. If I had to guess who asked for this it would be the RIAA & MPAA. The story goes a few years ago they tried this and asked all of the major ISP’s of Canada for IP Addresses of their users/customers browsing habits. All but one ISP said no and told the AA’s to GTFO and quit waiting our time. And that was that. So I’m kind of surprised that these AA douchbags would try this again even though they got told off by everybody but VideoTron (the one who willingly gave their users information to the AA’s) and even posted what happened on their company websites as a well like a well earned badge of awesome. I would not be surprised that if the same result comes again.
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Provide Customs officials with adequate authority to make ex officio seizures of counterfeit and pirate product at the border; and, provide adequate resources to anti-piracy enforcement efforts and make prosecution of intellectual property crimes a high priority.The first part I really have no problem with but the 2nd part is very funny to say the lest. The RCMP (Canada’s FBI that does police work as well) of all people went on record not too long ago and said they will not be willing to help the copyright holders with their problems. And I understand were they are coming from they have more pressing issues to deal with like dealing with terrorists for example then dealing with what some corporation wants.
The Special 301 Report is entirely driven by the corporate lobbyists and lacks and dissenting voices of reason outside of US copyright special interest groups. Hopefully the Members or Parliament will listen the voices and concerns of their constituents and not the US corporate lobbyists who have the power of the media and press releases at their disposal.
And if you really want to get down to how this happened you can blame Obama’s VP pick Joe Biden. Why you may ask? Well it can do with the fact that Biden is a DMCA loving, bought and paid for, Vice President to come into power to do this and it only took 101 days to do this. Hell he was one of the major voices behind getting the DMCA passed back in the Clinton era. And I had a feeling in the back of my mind his copyright cartel masters were going to come back to him sooner or later before he became VP and ask him to do a few more favors on their behalf before he got in to office were he would be out of their reach for the most part.
Tell you what, US Government you start paying the taxes on the softwood lumber properly that you owe us, we'll be willing to listen to you. If not GTFO out of our countries affairs and stop trying to tell us how to run our country don’t you have your own problems to deal with from King Chimpy and his Doughy Pantload Crew friends left you to clean up after them Obama? Hey yea I think you do. Let’s see: Two wars, massive job loss and your dollar is not what it used to be. The last one my friends and me are making a killing on buying stuff online and the like.
By the way on a somewhat related note when I posted about this
on my Twitter. A GOoPer decided to
take a cheap shot on Obama’s cabinet in a replay to me.
I burned his ass that he needs Vicks now. :) Anyways I got to head off now. I hope that the Government here does not pay attention to what the US says over this and hear more to the worries of the people. But somehow I doubt that. This is Harper I’m talking about a pro corporation bastard who would gladly sell this country down the river to the highest bidder for money.
