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| Author: | CMDR Steve-O [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Canada is a lawless wasteland! |
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20100428.html Key markets show impact of piracy Spain (-14.3%) and Canada (-7.4%), countries with some of the world's weakest legal defences against piracy, show the sharpest falls, along with Italy, over a decade among the top 10 markets. Spain, where illegal file-sharing is more than double the average rate in Europe, has seen the biggest market fall, down 60% since 1999. Canada, practically the only government of a developed country not to have implemented international copyright treaties agreed over a decade ago, is a major source of the world's piracy problem. A disproportionate number of illegal sites are hosted on Canadian soil. Not too many things I'm proud of in our Guv, but this is one of them! FWIW, the -7.4% is slightly more than the global average of -7%, and well below the US. As well we also pay the levy on blank media which has "generated" ~$250 million paid directly (I hope) to the artists sine 1997 or so. |
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| Author: | Denty [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Canada is a lawless wasteland! |
I agree one of the few things the government has done right. |
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| Author: | Dr_BenD_over [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Canada is a lawless wasteland! |
Sniff sniff, smells like RIAA/MPAA dogshit, er dogma to me |
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