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Canada Blocks Free Net TV
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posted by scubacuda
on Monday January 20, @10:07AM
from the guess-we'll-go-to-Sealand-eh? dept.
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According to News.com, Canadian regulators closed a Canadian loophole in international copyright law that many entrepreneurs hoped to use to create new Net TV businesses. The Canadian Radio-Television
and Telecommunications Commission wrote, "The likelihood that a program retransmitted over the Internet would become available worldwide could significantly reduce the opportunities" for copyright owners." The United States National Association of Broadcasters, welcomed the decision, "We regard this decision as a major victory for consumers in the protection of free, over-the-air television signals and programming," the group said in a statement.
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Using DoubleSpeak(TM) with permission by George Orwell, Copyrighted(c) circa the early 1900's we translate the above to mean:
This is another great loss for the consumer and another great win for the major corporations. In their quest to increase the linings of their pockets at the expense of John and Jane Doe they have unceasingly looked more and more towards the courts, and houses of Congress to extend their reach so that they are recompensed for each and every passing second of our lives. Stay tuned when next week we hear that every time you enter a restaurant and just happen to hear one of those favorite tunes that you will be automatically taxed for, unlike the more common sense approached used by car manufacturers, chair makers, and everyone else in the world - the RIAA and MPAA is most definitely are in a world of their own. It's not enough that they are paid when you buy a radio, television, or anything which can make a sound or picture. It's not enough that they are paid when you buy any kind of blank media. It's not even enough when they are paid when a movie is shown in a theatre, TV, or played over a radio. No! It's not even enough when you have to go out and pay exorbitant rates to own the movie or song. No! They must still put FBI warnings, threats of lawsuits, and all sorts of disclaimers on something which you now own (without ever bothering to tell you what you really can do with your property). No. Now they want to strangle any chance of even seeing clips over the internet.
Hmmmm... How sad. There's more "dumb" than "Free" in Freedom. Obviously there needs to be more "Limits" in the "Limited time" clause too.
And as W.C.Fields used to say "This is only the beginning folks. Yes sir - only the beginning."
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