“Unlikely bedfellows Microsoft and Apple have asked the US Government to put Canada on its priority blacklist of intellectual property crooks, saying the country isn’t doing enough to prevent their products being ripped off,” Andrew Thomas reports for The Inquirer.
“But the Government decided against it and Canada narrowly missed being included on the list of the usual prime suspects – China, Russia, Argentina, Chile, Egypt, India, Israel, Lebanon, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela,” Thomas reports. “So, for the fourth year running, Canada remains in the second division of copyright crooks.”
Thomas reports, “The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) blacklist – drawn up in February but only just published – is the first step in a process that can lead to international trade sanctions. The organisation, representing companies including Apple and Microsoft, says that Canada’s ‘chronic failure’ to modernise its copyright legislation has made it a global centre for bootleg movies and pirated software and had wanted the US Government to put Canada on the priority list.”
More in the full article here.
We’re innocent I tells ya! Innocent!!
Pirates of the Canadians, Part 2 Bad?
As my daddy used to say…
You gotta be SH-TTIN’ me!
Where’s the U. S. of A. on the list of copyright crooks? oh wait… right.
Aw, because Canada won’t make downloading illegal so big companies can’t take away our rights, the big bad US has to black list us. Did they try the same thing with Norway and France too??
I am so frickin’ sick of these g-damn socialist frog bastihds. Keep it up, Canucks. All you’re doing is hastening your annexation by the United States of America.
shouldnt microsoft be on the list, not making it!!!
Don’t worry, right after “global warming” comes global cooling. That firggin desolate wasteland of a country will be so cold that no one who can steal anything will be left there.
CANADA — The biggest waste of space ever to border a world economic juggernaut.
Hey, here’s a deal: We’ll gladly send back all of your still-living overrated SCTV blowhards if you’ll all just SHUT THE HELL UP about your shitty “superior health care system”. Eh?
Canada — Attracting layabout French expatriates for more than 200 years!
I like Canada. Good beer.
To: Johnny Canuck the Dork
From: The Law
Message: Update yours. Or SCREW!
And once again, the insecurity of some of our more xenophobic correspondents comes to the fore.
We need a sequel to Canadian Bacon (1995). Michael Moore’s best flick so far.
So what is with the animosity all of a sudden? Fair weather friends I tell you. Anyway it is easy to tell what jack-offs write this tripe…their level of education/intelligence is reflected in their writing
“I am so frickin’ sick of these g-damn socialist frog bastihds. “
I rest my case.
P.S. Try writing something about…oh…say perhaps…THE TOPIC!!!
Maybe we should just take hockey players and zambonis.
They can keep curling
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aboot
in a boot
Canada became the U.S.A.’s 53rd state on 2046. Nothing changed except they finally stopped trying to pass off their goofy fake coins at our U.S. toll booths.
Mondale:
You’re not kidding. I don’t know why they’re so afraid of people from Canada though. I mean we’re neighbors after all.
We’re a pretty easy-going bunch up here too – piracy included I guess, which could be perceived as bad I suppose. But piracy is rampant everywhere, including the US.
And most-importantly we really do have some great beer.
Ignorance is bliss I guess. Or fear in this instance.
Screw Iraq, let’s invade Canada and teach them canucks a thing or two. Ya know, 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border, they’re massing to invade. So I say attack now before they attack us.This piracy thing will be the perfect excuse to send the troops. Well, America, are you behind me?
To all you low class dickheads who keep bashing your friendly neighbour to the north that is currently cleaning up your shit in Afghanistan, STFU or we will go back to Wasiington and burn the White House down (for the second time) have a big drunken party around the embers (again for the second time…AND we will bring REAL beer) and then go back home and laugh about it.
Being Canadian though we will probably bring back our empties because that would be littering. We hate that eh?
Shouldn’t Canada be the 51st state already? What’s taking so long?
Ah those cooky Canadians….
Ah those cooky Canadians….
Ah those cooky Canadians….
Ah those cooky Canadians….