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Earth movers
Jun. 23rd, 2010 03:43 pmApparently the Toronto and Ottawa areas have just recently experienced a 5.5 magnitude earthquake!
So, if Canada experiences an earthquake, does it make it an "earthquehke?" ;)
So, if Canada experiences an earthquake, does it make it an "earthquehke?" ;)
Are eye eh eh
Jul. 25th, 2007 11:17 pmWell, it seems the music industry thinks it can shake down our Canadian friends upstairs a hell of a lot more than they are doing already. For years, Canadians have 'enjoyed' paying a 21 cent 'tax' (actually a 'levy') on each blank CD-R disk purchased, whether or not that disk is used to store music. Disks designed to store music data ("Music CD-Rs" and MiniDiscs) carry a 77 cent tariff. That's about to change, and expand, if a proposal by the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) becomes law. In addition to raising the current tariffs, the new law would attach a hefty levy to flash media according to capacity, and some whopping fees onto MP3 players, topping out at $75 bux for a player with 30 gigs or more of storage.
As far as I see it, this 'levy', which is meant to compensate artists for their work (and to date I think has not contributed one red cent to anyone but industry lawyers) should now give carte blanche to everyone up in the Great White North to download, trade and share music via any means possible with full blessings of the industry. Artists be damned, go forth and fill those iPods up. After all it was Universal Media Group CEO Doug Morris who exclaimed last year, "These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it.". Makes you just want to give up buying music forever, doesnt it?
More info can be found here.
Proposal can be viewed here (.pdf)
As far as I see it, this 'levy', which is meant to compensate artists for their work (and to date I think has not contributed one red cent to anyone but industry lawyers) should now give carte blanche to everyone up in the Great White North to download, trade and share music via any means possible with full blessings of the industry. Artists be damned, go forth and fill those iPods up. After all it was Universal Media Group CEO Doug Morris who exclaimed last year, "These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it.". Makes you just want to give up buying music forever, doesnt it?
More info can be found here.
Proposal can be viewed here (.pdf)
Blame Canada
Jan. 26th, 2007 11:45 pmI read here that Hollywood claims that 50 percent of all pirated movies originate from Canada. Reasons given for this vary from the Canadian copyright laws being too lax, to the multilingual releases found in Montreal and Quebec having a broader demand worldwide. Movie industry types complain that "internal policies of police forces including the RCMP, make it extremely difficult for them to crack down on movie piracy".
I am assuming that Canadian theatregoers would not appreciate those broad-brimmed RCMP hats blocking their view of the screen, and the horses would be a distracting and wanting popcorn handouts.
Jesus T. Cruise, people. While I am all for artists and performers as well as their industries and backers getting what is due to them, I see their 'war on piracy' to be about as effective as the dubious 'war on drugs'. Quite often the source of pirated movies come not from the camcordered tapes from theatergoers, but quite often are DVD 'screeners' sent out to reviewers and industry types. In short, their own back yard. What truly gets me, especially in the U.S., is how much the industry coddles up to the government to created draconian laws for minor infractions and uses the notion of fighting piracy as a caliper to quietly push for regulations and technical measures designed solely to limit what honest, paying consumers can do with the media they own. At the rate things are going, one will have to charge admission to people other than direct family members who get invited over to their friend's homes for a movie night. These fees, of course, will have to be sent directly to the movie indsutries themselves to recover from 'lost revenue'.
Mark my words. Your TiVo will one day charge you to use the 'rewind' button.
This whole ordeal makes me wonder... Do Canadian pirates say "Aaarrrrrhhh" like 'standard' pirates do, or is it more like "Eeehhhhhhh...rrrrr"? ;)
I am assuming that Canadian theatregoers would not appreciate those broad-brimmed RCMP hats blocking their view of the screen, and the horses would be a distracting and wanting popcorn handouts.
Jesus T. Cruise, people. While I am all for artists and performers as well as their industries and backers getting what is due to them, I see their 'war on piracy' to be about as effective as the dubious 'war on drugs'. Quite often the source of pirated movies come not from the camcordered tapes from theatergoers, but quite often are DVD 'screeners' sent out to reviewers and industry types. In short, their own back yard. What truly gets me, especially in the U.S., is how much the industry coddles up to the government to created draconian laws for minor infractions and uses the notion of fighting piracy as a caliper to quietly push for regulations and technical measures designed solely to limit what honest, paying consumers can do with the media they own. At the rate things are going, one will have to charge admission to people other than direct family members who get invited over to their friend's homes for a movie night. These fees, of course, will have to be sent directly to the movie indsutries themselves to recover from 'lost revenue'.
Mark my words. Your TiVo will one day charge you to use the 'rewind' button.
This whole ordeal makes me wonder... Do Canadian pirates say "Aaarrrrrhhh" like 'standard' pirates do, or is it more like "Eeehhhhhhh...rrrrr"? ;)
Oh Canada?
Nov. 28th, 2005 10:16 pmI certainly hope that this mess does not cause any grief for my friends to the North. The last thing we need is, well, another USA.
