Canada to Get Its Own DMCA?

[Christopher Browne]

On 5/6/05, JoeHill <joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 May 2005 15:34:40 -0400
> Walter Dnes disseminated the following:
> 
> > > "Canadian heritage minister Liza Frulla has recently proposed
> > > changes to Canadian copyright law that would allow US companies to
> > > sue Canadian Citizens."
> > >
> > > This doesn't sound good :-) Has anyone seen any reaction to this from
> > > anyone?
> >
> >   That does not compute.  Monsanto was able to sue the daylights out of
> > a farmer because his next-door neighbour's wheat pollen blew onto the
> > defendant's field.  What is so new about US corps being able to sue
> > Canadians?
> 
> Nothing new, just typically pustulant American ignorance and greed, coupled with
> a similarly typical servile attitude toward our thuggish and belligerent
> neighbours to the south.

I'm getting surprised that nobody has gotten to the point of calling
them "evil-minded hillbillies."  There was a guy from Carleton that
used to incessantly flame Americans on gnu.misc.discuss, and that was
his favorite slur.  Richard Kulitz, I think it was...

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