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No, really... does the US have any power to change Canadian law? (DMCA)
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Canada must beef up copyright laws to stem piracy: US envoy - Yahoo! News
To this, if Canadian politicians were truly representing their people (and if a consumer's vote is equivalent to an intellectual author's vote, and equivalent to a pirate's vote), they'd have no problem to reply "Go run your own country or we'll rise our oil prices, eh".
But I have a gut feeling that intellectual property advocates will somehow convince the Canadian government that letting bootleggers run amok is not a good thing, and shut off that tap once and for all, despite their lack of any actual power. What do you think?
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America has no explicit authority that I am aware of to make such demands, but it can definitely utilize existing relationship with Canada to twist its arm (in a legal fashion of course).
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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We can't directly change Canadian law, but if we were batshit insane we could embargo you over it, and I suspect that'd get a result.
Any country that is dependent on another for something has lost some power to it.
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Originally Posted by The Godfather 
Canada must beef up copyright laws to stem piracy: US envoy - Yahoo! News
To this, if Canadian politicians were truly representing their people (and if a consumer's vote is equivalent to an intellectual author's vote, and equivalent to a pirate's vote), they'd have no problem to reply "Go run your own country or we'll rise our oil prices, eh".
But I have a gut feeling that intellectual property advocates will somehow convince the Canadian government that letting bootleggers run amok is not a good thing, and shut off that tap once and for all, despite their lack of any actual power. What do you think?
No. Really.
But as any country that has a trade relationship with you we can use aspects of that relationship to, as BM put it, legally twist your arm, to try and get a revision to your lax copyright laws.
I missed it in the original post, how is letting bootleggers run amok a good thing?
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Originally Posted by RIRedinPA
No. Really.
But as any country that has a trade relationship with you we can use aspects of that relationship to, as BM put it, legally twist your arm, to try and get a revision to your lax copyright laws.
I missed it in the original post, how is letting bootleggers run amok a good thing?
No, no. I said that letting bootleggers run amok is a BAD thing.
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Can the Music and Movie companies refuse to ship to Canada? Willl that have an affect?
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Originally Posted by Buckaroo
Can the Music and Movie companies refuse to ship to Canada? Willl that have an affect?
It might but Canada can stop sending California power and shut the lights out in Hollywood stopping the recording/movie studios to begin with 
(Last edited by analogue SPRINKLES; Mar 8, 2007 at 04:48 PM.
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