A week ago, I found myself writing a snarky email to Gillian Shaw about her article on the Conference Board of Canada’s “research findings” on the strength of Canadian copyright. I’m a huge fan of BoingBoing and Michael Geist, and I had been following their reporting on this quite closely. I’m going to put up the content of that email not because I’m especially proud of it (I consider it, more or less, to be giving in to a very seductive form of righteousness that myself and my fellow lefties like to indulge from time to time), but to show how much of “a believer” I was and am in a less-is-more approach to copyright reform. And I’m doing that to give you an idea of how much I did not want to get into the conversation I got into today regarding the latest allegations against the Conference Board of Canada, post fuck up. (And to be clear, they did fuck up. I just think we’re jumping the gun a bit as to how much they fucked up). On with the email, then…
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SpiralTruth
Just another post-modern quest for meaning.
Imagine my surprise today on my lunch break as I spotted two storm troopers walking down the streets of downtown Edmonton with prisoner in tow! I knew that stuff like this would start happening after we re-elected Slick Steve Harper and his minority of scoundrels! I didn’t want to get too close (after all, I value my freedom), but I believe that these two are part of the proposed DMCA legislation that the Conservatives plan on going ahead with after the initial backlash against Bill C-61 (you can read about some of the wonderful things this bill would do for Canadians here) and that the peaceful looking lady they are escorting may have illegally downloaded some Michael Bolton tracks.