U.S. Rejects Canadian Rejection of DMCA

P Starrson writes " Slashdot readers may recall that last month Canadian policy makers rejected the DMCA for Canada. Not so fast apparently -- the U.S. Trade Representative has released the annual Section 301 report which each year tells the rest of the world that they need stronger intellectual property protection. This year Canada is a particular target -- the U.S. plans to conduct a special review of Canadian policies and explicitly rejects Canada's rejection of the DMCA. A good summary on what this means from Canadian law professor Michael Geist."

Moderation

[fembots]

Is it like moderation and meta-moderation in Slashdot? In the end nothing matters.

As a Canadian...

[Mawen]

I reject U.S.'s rejection of Canada's Rejection of DMCA.

So... wait... does this mean

[Anonymous Coward]

...that Canada qualifies as a circumvention device?

Uh oh

What?

[Farrell]

I thought we settled States Rights during the civil war, and agreed no state could reject federal law ;)

In Soviet America

[Anonymous Coward]

Canadian DMCA rejects YOU!

sigh

[Anonymous Coward]

all this rejection is reminding me of high school....

A note from Miss Canada to her groping Uncle

[ded_si_luap]

Miss Canada: "Uncle Sam, Don't prod your nose where it don't go. Three times before I tossed you out in the snow. If you keep hacking, you'll get a darned good whacking"

Uncle Sam: "Oooohhhh - I like being whacked! Whack me here, Whack me there. Whack me on the bed, and under the chair. Whack me by whip, Whack me by stick. Whack me in Nam, Whack me in Iruq. Now I'll get whacked from little miss Canuck!

wow

[jessecurry]

I laughed so f******g hard when I read this, my girlfriend couldn't believe that slashdot could be this funny

Re:Bee^Hing from canada

[Anonymous Luddite]

>> The USA can suck my balls

Careful there Anethema. There are 295,734,134 people down there - you'll get a seriously chapped bag.

Re:Beeing from canada

[Wavicle]

The USA can suck my balls if they want us to adopt the DMCA.

So I take it you reject the U.S. rejection of the Canadian rejection of the DMCA?

You do realize that U.S. IP holders would reject your rejection of the U.S. rejection of the Canadian rejection of the DMCA??

Rejecting a...rejection?

[zoogies]

You can reject a rejection? Sweeet! I'll keep this in mind when I some day apply for a job.

Re:NAFTA?

[Anonymous Luddite]

>> NAFTA! Ha! Good luck with that one. See: Softwood Lumber dispute, Mad Cow dispute... Both illegal under NAFTA.


Nearly
Always
Favours
The
Americans...

Re:Beeing from canada

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Professor Millington,

Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me an assistant professor position in your department.

This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field of candidates it is impossible for me to accept all refusals.

Despite Whitson's outstanding qualifications and previous experience in rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at this time. Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor in your department this August. I look forward to seeing you then.

Best of luck in rejecting future applicants.

Re:For St Peter's sake

[epiphani]

As a Canadian, I'd put forth that we reject the US's rejection of our DMCA rejection.

Re:Beeing from canada

[myowntrueself]

"The USA can suck my balls if they want us to adopt the DMCA."

Well you know what Condeleeza Rice would say to that, don't you?

"Present them", thats what she'd say.

Re:Beeing from canada

[Anonymous Coward]

The USA can suck my balls if they want us to adopt the DMCA.

Ironic that those are the last words that Sadaam said to Bush just 10 days before the US invaded.

Next thing you will hear of "reports" of weapons of mass destruction are suspected to be in canada.

I would watch what you do up there in the 51'st state.

(Note: this is a JOKE. if you dimwitted moderators dont get it then you can suck my balls!)

Re:Bee^Hing from canada

[pizen]

But he only has to worry about chapping from 295,734,133 because I won't be participating.

Re:As a Canadian...

[Anonymous Coward]

We, the sovereign nation of Quebec will decides of ours own affaires...

Will you suport us Canadian friend?

Re:not much they can do about it really

[FidelCatsro]

;) well you could look at it like this , America is unable to handle the girth of Canadian Wood..
*Awaits down moderation for tastelessness*

We need an IP Tea Party.

[Graemee]

I seem to remember a small revolution started 200+ years ago when some empire taxed without representation. "Strong" IP laws like the DCMA and other corporate friendly laws are nothing short of taxation. A corporate tax for the people and by the companies through the law makers they buy.

I find it humorous that the very people that started the revolution are the "empire" and those who rejected the first revolution now are the revolutionaries.

Personally, I'd love to turn off the natural gas and electricity to you thankless assholes and sell it to the Chinese.

Brilliant!

[Ira Sponsible]

That's freaking brilliant! I MUST try this. The chances of this actually working are much higher than me legitimately landing a good job.

Thank you for the idea, now I'm off to the patent office.

A Letter From Canada

[mhotchin]

Dear USA,

Fuck Off.

Kisses,
Canada

Re:Mod Parent Up

[KarmaMB84]

We vote for representatives who will stop the queers from marrying each other! You know nothing about our system!

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To the tune of Blame Canada from South Park

[aztennenbaum]

Times have changed,
Our kids are getting worse
They won't obey IP laws,
So let's pin blame and coerce.

Should we blame the government
or stupid IP laws
or should we blame the DMCA
with it's many flaws?

No!

Blame Canada!
Blame Canada

With their software piracy,
their stupid "diplomacy"

Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!

The circumvention must stop
The trash we must smash
Laughter and fun
must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!

You know . . .

[OmgTEHMATRICKS]

I get this really odd feeling that this article should have a Humor icon instead of what it has now.

Re:and how do the states figure...

[Anonymous Coward]

Excerpt from Bush's diary:

Note to self: Invade Canadia^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Cananada^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Candadia^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H

Ah, fuck it. Invade Irak.

Re:For St Peter's sake

[quarkscat]

Shortly after 9-11-2001, Dubya was quoted as saying
"If you aren't with us, you are with the terrorists."
This world view has been applied to the liberal
press and opposition politicians (anthrax letters), as well
as the American people (USA Patriot Act(I)).
The Bush administration equates violations of the
DMCA as "acts of terrorism" as well.

Between trade conflicts over soft wood products and
beef cattle imports, Canada is on the "short list"
to join the "axis of evil". Or to quote a more liberal
Republican president with an accidentally "live"
microphone, "Bombing starts in 15 minutes."

I sincerely hope our neighbors to the north have
"dug in", because I suspect things are going to get
dicey there this summer. (Canada DOES have oil,
after all.)

Re:For St Peter's sake

[dswartze]

shhhhh....

it's talk like this that gets other countries bombed, and quite frankly that's not something I want to see happen.

Re:For St Peter's sake

[muonman]

That would be perfect. Hillary president... and you dead.

Re:Meanwhile...

[TheScorpion420]

Canada rejects U.S. Rejection of Canadian rejection of the DMCA!

Re:For St Peter's sake

[stemcell]

Perhaps a simple 'fuck you' is in order.

The US rejects your offer of sexual relations.

Freedom Bacon

[geek_xyu]

How dare other countries not follow along with what we do or say? I for one suggest that we change the name of "Canadian Bacon" or as Canadians like to call it "Bacon" to "Freedom Bacon". I think that will get our point across nicely.