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Canada to enter IIPA blacklist

Posted Feb 14, 2007 at 4:23PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: News Tags: Canada, ESA, IIPA, Russia

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The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is convincing the U.S. government to add Canada to the list of countries that are lenient on copyright infringement laws and issues. ESA represents the game industry in the International Intellectual Property Alliance and works to protect respective copyrighted materials.

Canada is believed to possess inadequate protection for intellectual properties. Videotaping a movie in a Canadian theater is not illegal. Chip modifications that allow pirated software to play on a console are rampant across the country. ESA Canada has been in talks with the Canadian government to address these issues.

Stephen Harper, current Prime Minister, replaced the former Prime Minister who didn't yield to the matter. But Prime Minister Harper is more open to the issue.

The current blacklist includes Russia and China and a slew of other countries who will face sanctions with the World Trade Organization. Canada is currently in the U.S.'s lower priority watch list, but the IIPA recommends that it be moved up the list. As they said to the U.S. government:

Canada's long tenure on the Watch List has had no discernible effect on Canadian copyright policy. Consequently, IIPA believes that [the United States Trade Representative] should elevate Canada to the Priority Watch List as a concrete expression of U.S. disappointment that the Government of Canada has given insufficient priority to this crucial item of unfinished business. At a time when every other developed country and major U.S. trading partner has made significant progress toward modernizing copyright legislation to respond to the challenges of an ever changing technological universe, Canada's failure to do so is particularly striking, and should elicit a commensurate reaction from the U.S. government.

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Lets make something perfectly clear: I do not, nor have i ever condoned piracy or other forms of theft in the criminal nature. However, i read about how the US "Black-lists" other countries that defy the way business is done. Excuse the other countries for not sharing that same business sentiment, but perhaps the reason they do not follow the same practice is because they find crudeness in what they say? Come on! I love the term Intellectual Property belonging to the "ARTIST/DEVELOPER/DESIGNER/BLAH BLAH BLAH" The only "artist" that i have ever seen become so irrate was Metalica over napster. In fact, if anyone is sick and tired of hearing the words Copyright Infringement, you know who you can blame. As i've stated above...i never condoned this kind of theft and i've never participated, but i'll tell you something, i dont appreciate how the US Goverment is walking around with its head up high, turning its nose at how other goverments operate through their own laws. It's not like the laws drafted in the US are perfect. We're up to our eyeballs in debt (by the billions), while these other countries aren't doing too bad on their own. So we have to resort to copyrights. I think we should focus on the murderers/rapists/junkies, instead of calling computer pirates criminals as portrayed by these huge corporations attornies. End the stupidity already!

# Funny... — Guest 2007-02-14 19:34

That's awesome. Joining a list with China on it, a country with a brutal human rights record that does a TON of trade with the US. Apparently it appears being on this watch list is beneficial...

I bet Harper bloody bows down to it though. What amuses me is Canada is one of the countries with SANE copyright laws. We pay a levy on blank CD's here to to the recording industry. That's right, when you burn the latest Linux distro or backup your hard drive, you're paying the CRIA for the pleasure.

Of course what's funny is the Canadian Supreme Court let all this through, then basically, using something lacking in the US courts (common sense), declared that MP3 downloading should be legal, as we are, after all, paying a royalty to the CRIA...

Reading stuff like this article makes me sick to my stomach. This is not about protecting copyrights. It's about protecting out of date cartels who have the ears (and pockets) of government officials.

Disgusting.

# things that make you go hmmm... — cory1492 2007-02-15 01:04

Wasn't 911 essentially a retribution for similar USA "musings" about foreign policy?

I mean, I certainly don't tell my neighbor how to live their life...

# I would — hush404 2007-02-15 02:17

like to meet the head of the ESA so I could give him a nice boot to the baby maker.

Like hell, Piracy isn't a huge issue in Canada, there's some of it sure, but I'm willing it be it's 10fold down in good ol USA. I think they should try to fix their own problems and not go after other countries for theirs.

# THANK YOU — Guest 2007-02-15 04:51

Here in the USA we aren't even allowed to return games to the store because the games industry likes to whore the Intellectual Property angle whenever it suits them. "Oh, if you want your $50 back, it must be because you copied it, even though less than 20% of Americans own a DVD burner." Um no, maybe its because the game was the worst, most horribly coded, bug-ridden piece of crap I've ever seen? I should have the right to return a product that I'm not happy with, for any reason.

Another myth of the gaming industry is the "copy protection is vital to protecting our product" line of BS. If I pay $50 for Battlefield 2142 at the store, I have to have the DVD in the drive. Even though we all have hard drives now and we're well past the point of swapping floppies, paying customers have to put up with this retardation. But not pirates who steal the game; the version they download has the protection removed. NICE.

# Yes, let's all trust the RIAA and the MPAA — Guest 2007-02-15 06:25

Lord knows they've been 100% truthful in all of their statistics and don't fudge numbers at all ;)

# Same policy in Canada... — Shatterdome 2007-02-15 11:01

We can't return games either, not even console games, which are even more of a pain to copy then PC games....you can only switch it off for the same game, in the case it's defective or something.

# I will be pissed... — Shatterdome 2007-02-15 11:05

if my 24mpbs speed and 150 gig a month limit is taken away. Our ISP's know we love to pirate, and that's why they offer insane packages, if we aren't "allowed" to pirate anymore, whats the point, i'll be going back to 5mbps with a 50 gig limit, or even lower.

I really hate the U.S, Marijuana would have been legalised long ago if the U.S didn't threaten to cut trade off, among other "repercussions"...

Go to hell you idiotic skanks...(mainly the goverment, but unfortunately the people ellect the goverment)

# . — Guest 2007-02-17 05:56

Sure it might not be illegal to videotape movies in theaters here, but everyone caught with a camera in the theater gets thrown out and banned from the theater.

The US will never put Canada higher on the list. If they do, it will limit the importation and exportations between the two countries and Canada is US' biggest client. Doing so will hurt the economy so badly.

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