YinToYang's Strange World of Crazy

ladragonaria:

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miyomo:

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Pokeballs: Breloom, Typhlosion, Mightyena, Espeon, Tyranitar

How does one even begin to choose?

Uhhhhhh…..

Partner:…

Partner: Ninetails

Pokeballs: Typholsion, Machoke, Nidoking, Bulbasaur, and Glaceon

bearberlycrusher:

peak-society:

“I’m a Canadian.

We’re a quiet bunch; prone to enjoying hockey, drinking stronger beer than our friends south of the border, and lovers of fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy.

We also, apparently, have an inferiority complex when it comes to being evil dirt bags, because we’ve decided to pass our very own version of SOPA up here.

Only better*

Meet Bill-C11. Formerly Bill C-32. (I think they thought if they made the number lower people would care less about it?)

Or as we call it up here; Her Royal Majesty V, Zzzzzzz

We like our politics dry up here.

But, as innocuous as it sounds, C-11 does a whole lot that SOPA did with a few extra twists you might not find in the Wikipedia write-up.

Like your PVR? You can’t keep it under C-11.

Like ripping CDs to your iPod? Say bye-bye.

Hey, do you want to be able to unlock your $500 smartphone and take it to a provider less dedicated to violating your wallet? That won’t be allowed either.

Did you get accused of internet piracy but no evidence has been presented and a trial date hasn’t even been set? Under C-11 your ISP will now be forced to terminate your internet access.

And people say that governments can’t be bought.

We’re not going to get Google or Wikipedia to go dark up here. We don’t have as robust a tech industry to act as a public counterbalance to entertainment industry interests. We have a Prime Minister (that’s  French for Dear Leader under the current regime) who doesn’t give a suckling goat what the people think about his policies.

But we do have a lot more recourse in our political system to make politicians pay than our Yankee brethren do. (Yes I know I just insulted everyone south of the Mason Dixon line. I’m sorry. You trying caring about foreign geographical terminology when every person you’ve ever met from a particular country still thinks it’s the height of hilarity to ask if you live in an igloo.) We have things like votes of no confidence that can really bugger up a sitting House member’s day.

So, if you’re Canadian, or you’re friends with a Canadian, or you just really like bacon, click the link at the bottom of this article and share it with as many people as you can.

We can’t afford to lose on this one, Canada.”

What? No! Most of the information in this post is completely wrong. You know why you won’t find this information on Wikipedia? Because it’s not true.

Bill C-11 does not make it illegal to use a PVR or to rip a CD to MP3 player. It makes it illegal to circumvent digital locks. And it specifically says that you will not lose your internet unless there is a court injunction against you

Don’t believe me? Here’s the relevation sections: “29.23 (1) It is not an infringement of copyright for an individual to fix a communication signal, to reproduce a work or sound recording that is being broadcast or to fix or reproduce a performer’s performance that is being broadcast….” PVRs=legal.

“29.22 (1) It is not an infringement of copyright for an individual to reproduce a work or other subject-matter or any substantial part of a work or other subject-matter….” CD to MP3=legal.

“41.27 (1) In any proceedings for infringement of copyright, the owner of the copyright in a work or other subject-matter is not entitled to any remedy other than an injunction against a provider of an information location tool that is found to have infringed copyright by making a reproduction of the work or other subject-matter or by communicating that reproduction to the public by telecommunication.” They cannot cut off your internet without an injunction.

Basically, this entire post is filled with complete lies.

Now, this is not to say that there aren’t huge problems with Bill C-11. There are. North America has huge problems with copyright, where governments strongly favour producer rights over consumer rights. In the States, this is in large part because corporate money talks; Canada does not allow corporations to donate money, and this saves us a lot of trouble. However, we still tend to follow America’s lead on many matters.

Europe generally tends to favour consumer rights a lot more, so DRM in Europe is significantly different. Ebooks in the Netherlands have “social drm” which means that you can trace where the illegal copies came from, but people are not restricted from using the file in whatever way they want. Check out http://www.booxtream.com/ and see how different that is from our horrible North American schemes.

How do we get there? Well, companies need to see that DRM hurts their bottom line more than piracy: in the Netherlands, no one would buy an ebook with DRM. So, buy indie, DRM-free videogames. Buy indie, DRM-free movies. Buy indie, DRM-free ebooks. Let the money flow into the corporations that respect consumers. Even if the big corporations don’t change their minds, they’ll go bankrupt and be replaced by corporations that understand that, if they want to make money, they need to do it on the consumer’s terms.

^^THIS. Thank you Daniel.

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mr-ochinchin:

Devil Ray Majeh

yes

Screaming Summoner Savannah

Sweet.

Sea Singer Soldier Kavo

I can live with it.

Perky Moon Policewoman Austin. Awww yes.

Bright Smasher Jonah

okay

Faith Trapper Guardian Richard

what?

First Berserker Luca

Fuck yeah!