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Originally posted by chinamon if this law is passed, here is the best way around it. just steal a neighbour's unprotected wifi. :P

Umm ISP filtering happens at the ISP-level. It doesn't matter if you're using your neighbour's connection - their connection will be filtered also.

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Originally posted by Jayx1 god forbid that we should actually have to buy music again

With all your ranting and raving, and lecturing people on how they miss the point of the articles you post, this one seems to have flown waaaaaaaay over you.

If you actually think this bill is bullshit, contact your member of parliament:

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Com...e.aspx?Menu=HOC



I left a message with mine this morning, and I am waiting for a call back.

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Originally posted by chinamon laughing at you.

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Jim Prentice just unveiled the bill, and I have been reading it. It does sound sane, and does not completely trample our rights, on just skimming through. You can still make legal copies of stuff you have bought.

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublica...nguage=e&Mode=1

There is the link, if anybody else wants to read it. After I finish reading the whole thing, I will post a small summary of the good, bad and fugly.

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur Umm ISP filtering happens at the ISP-level. It doesn't matter if you're using your neighbour's connection - their connection will be filtered also.

could you please explain in laymen terms how this works or at least point me in a direction that does?

and also any1 know if ISP blockers work at all/could help this?

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur Yeah, I'm afraid that in a decade the Internet will become more policed than Richmond St. on a Saturday night.

Except for spam. They're pretty much unregulated.

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Shoppers can't resist cheap DVDs At $20 for eight movies, counterfeits sell briskly June 13, 2008 Huixia Sun Emily Mathieu Staff Reporters While a bill containing new rules about online piracy was introduced in Parliament yesterday, the business of selling counterfeit DVDs at shops in the Pacific Mall shows no signs of slowing down. Business is booming as customers flock to the centre in the Steeles Ave. E. and Kennedy Ave. area to purchase eight DVDs for the rock-bottom price of $20. Last year the price was $20 for four DVDs. "A lot of people don't want to talk about it, but it's here," said Steven Mason, who often comes to the Markham mall to purchase DVDs. Mason, who works in maintenance, said police seem to be ignoring the situation. "If they were serious about it, they could stop it. Like they stop everything else." The police shouldn't just investigate shopkeepers, but look for the main source of illegal DVDs, he said. "It's always someone bigger." Mason said the state of the economy forces people on an increasingly tight budget to seek affordable entertainment. "You go to a movie nowadays, it's ridiculous," he said. During transactions, some shopkeepers gave customers receipts while others refused to provide any proof of sale. In a shop named Image & Sound, the shopkeeper produced a hand-written receipt. When asked where the DVDs come from, one shopkeeper said "a wholesaler." When asked if selling the DVDs was legal, a customer laughed, waved her hands and said, "Don't go there." "It is such a good price," said a young man, who preferred to be identified as "Michael." While prices remained fairly consistent throughout the mall, shopkeepers offered products with varying degrees of quality. Copies burned from original films offered extras like special features and scene selection. But copies downloaded from the Internet do not. Several shopkeepers in the mall were unaware of the new bill and seemed unafraid of punishment."I am not afraid. I am just a shopkeeper, not a shop owner," said a middle-aged woman in one of the stores. A man running a Chinese dress shop said shop owners were fined when police raided the mall. "But they make enough money to offset the fine," he said.

source:
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/442679

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Originally posted by Jayx1 god forbid that we should actually have to buy music again

Jay I know BIG NAME D.Js that don't buy music either! lol!

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Originally posted by Shaya007 Jay I know BIG NAME D.Js that don't buy music either! lol!

Most of those guys get it by promo from the record labels themselves though. Which is fine as they are essentially advertising the music.

What i find interesting is how the same people who are ready to crap all over people's rights "For the greater good" are suddenly upset at this legislation. But why should smokers drinkers and pitbull owners give a damn about the government monitoring downloading if they dont do it.... right?

I actually agree with the intended outcome of this as this affects me immensly. However i DO NOT and rarely if ever will agree with heavy handed government regulation. The tactics here are wrong. Just as we should not babysit adults in other aspects of life, the government should not be babysitting the internet either.

But, this is just one more aspect of the nanny state ideal that many people on here usually push for. It sucks though when that nanny logic gets blown right back into your face.