Thursday, April 30, 2009

Canada placed on copyright blacklist

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Globe and Mail April 30, 2009

The Obama administration added Canada Thursday to a notorious blacklist of countries where Internet piracy flourishes, reflecting a new, tougher line in Washington over the Harper government's chronic failure to deliver on promises of new copyright laws.

“Canada has never been put on the priority watch list before,” said Stanford McCoy, assistant U.S. trade representative for intellectual property and innovation as he released Washington's annual report or offenders.

Canada now joins a group of countries designated as being especially lax in protecting intellectual property, including Algeria, China, Russia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Venezuela. No other advanced Western democracy is on the list and Canada is regarded as a lawless hub for bootleg movies, ripped-off software and pirated chips that bypass copyright protections.

1 comment:

neural_traffic said...

this is just saying that canada's laws against internet piracy are lax...whether or not laws exist are non-issue if there aren't any realistic intiatives to enforce them.

by Mr. Ed