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Music is far more diverse now than it ever was in the sixties. and the music industry if more profitable than it ever was in the sixties, all under the Canadian written copyright laws to. So forgive me if I don't think american written dmca like laws are needed in Canada.

If I were a greedy person I suppose I might be tempted to screw over consumers for a cheap buck. That's all this bill is, a big fuck you to Canadian consumers, in favor of already incredibly profitable american companies.

Making a back up of something violates the copyright holders rights?

So you think good and fair legislation allows for all your rights to go out the window if the there is any form of drm lock on material? Tell me how is backing up a collection on my computer hurting anyone?

As some of you may know on Wednesday Harper's conservatives introduced their unpopular americanized copywrite legislation for third time. The main points of this bill are as follows: Breaking digital locks under the new bill would now be illegal. Essentially this would make it illegal to transfer music from most cds onto a computer. Transferring movie from any dvd to a computer would also be illegal. The maximum fine for breaking a lock is 5000 dollars Creating more than one copy of a song for personal use would be illegal. This means if you have an MP3 you got from a cd on your computer, and you want to transfer it to another device (ex: another computer, an mp3 player ect), well you legally wouldn't be able to do it. The maximum fine is 5000 dollars. These are the two major changes, pretty much everything else contained in this legislation is already legal/illegal under current copywrite laws. The full text of the of bill C-32 can be found here: http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=4580265&Language=e&Mode=1

Democracies function off of what the people in said democracy want. If enough people want pot legalized it should be.

"We're not running a deficit. We've got conservative budget estimates. We've got a modest platform that doesn't even fill the existing fiscal room that we have and we have plenty of flexibility in how we phase it. So that's our policy. We're not going into deficit." Stephen Harper, October 2008 http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/columnists/story.html?id=21506853-dac2-4c02-a6b5-9704fe47d9fc As of Jan 2009 (3 months later) 34 Billion Dollar Deficit expected http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/01/22/deficitoutlook.html and it only got larger from that point on...

~1 Billion dollars of the public's money to hold something like 3 days of private closed door meetings. Didn't the cons claim to be fiscally conservative?

Why should Canada be siding with anyone in a conflict that in no way involves us, and has two despicable parties involved in it?

Harper predicted, and promised, no deficit. 47 billion dollars seems a lot higher than than.

Anti-abortionist: someone who opposes abortion, absolutely. Sorry, but I am not a fan of the meaningless jargon terms like "pro-life" used decidedly to hide ones true views.

Pro-abortionists? Is that some sort of new group that wants to mandate mandatory abortions for all? I'll have to look them up... Edit: can't find any groups that I would qualify as "pro-abortionists" outside of some extreme fringe groups with no real presence in Canada.

A fetus is not a person, thus the charge of murder cannot be laid, so an entirely new law would be needed to approach this. Any attempt to claim the death of the fetus as murder would be used as a backdoor for the anti-abortionists to ban abortion.

If your in a country you are responsible for your actions.If you show me this guy traveling to America and breaking American laws while his person was in America I will support extradition.

Which Canadian law did he brake?

Well I remember being a lot richer back before the tax was cut in half...

Now if only he could have said no to the dozen other more important issues...

I see no problem with this. If anyone has a problem with it we can give them the option of going back to their theocracy.

damn that straw man is made of of bone dry timber.

Good to see atleast one party trying to think of a way out of this conservative structural deficit

I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that maybe asking for equal rights was not just a thinly veiled attempt to piss off the public.

Maybe they get the jobs because they are more qualified and harder workers than you?

I'm confused why we should be proping up a minority group. Maybe they should nut up and get with the program, you know, like the rest of Canadians who have to work for what they are given.

Uhh not to burst your bubble, but asian countries have some of the highest rates of infanticide in the world.

What you just posted is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this thread is dumber for having read it. I award your post no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.