[Discuss] Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers (Vancouver Sun)

[DR]

A quick note to your Member of Parliament politely expressing your 
concerns may let them know that we have noticed what they are up to.

Hon. Gary Lunn      Saanich-Gulf Islands	Lunn.G at parl.gc.ca
Hon. Keith Martin   Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca	Martin.K at parl.gc.ca
Hon. Denise Savoie  Victoria			Savoie.D at parl.gc.ca

A reasonable coverage of the parties a Conservative, Liberal and NDP 
respectively.  All that's missing is a Bloc Québécois.

I have often felt that if the Bloc is serious about Quebec separating 
that they should run in Alberta and BC too.  We might just surprise them. :)

Deid




Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2008-05-29 10:52-0700 David Bronaugh wrote:
> 
>> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>> [...]See
>>> http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=ae997868-220b-4dae-bf4f-47f6fc96ce5e 
>>> for the ugly details.
>> Yeah, I've read about this. It -is- pretty ugly.
> 
> I believe such efforts are largely driven by Hollywood because of their
> paranoia about illegal copying of their movies, and they don't give a damn
> about any bad consequences for the IT industry.  If you think about that it
> is really strange that Hollywood has so much power compared to the IT
> industry.  I have forgotten even the rough numbers, but I believe the IT
> industry is something like 10 times the size of the Hollywood industry, but
> the IT industry wields much less power than Hollywood in Washington (and
> therefore the world) so nonsense like this trade pact is given serious
> consideration when it should just be laughed off.
> 
> Year's ago when some Hollywood executive blurted out in an interview that
> the movie industry's goal was to get rid of the internet because of copying
> concerns, Barbara and I realized they were the fundamental enemy of all
> computer users.  We haven't been to a movie theatre since.  We do watch DVD
> movies from the library (they have a huge collection).  Classical Hollywood
> movies are pretty entertaining, but for modern movies we find the 
> quality of
> the movie tends to anti-correlate with how much influence Hollywood has had
> on it.
> 
> Alan
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