So the music and movie cartels are at it again. Under the umbrella of the IIPA, Canada is being bullied to make their copyright law more like that of the US. penalty for not doing it? getting blacklisted. there’s a bit of a press scare going on which will surely be misleading to many people that are too far removed from the realities of today’s technology that they will simply want the country to cave in. that would be a blatant violation of national autonomy and should generate something like the uproar that went on in Sweden when thePirateBay was illegally taken offline under pressure from lobby groups.

Michael Geist has a few thoughts on this issue, including some links to other articles concerning how Canadian artists were denied entrance to the Canadian Minister of Heritage. most of these artists are not supportive of what the cartels want and are quite happy with the current state of affairs.

this is about the right time to enforce those democratic rights and let everyone know what’s going on.