A Tweet-Style Protest for Canadian DMCA, ACTA

May 11, 2010 -

If you are Canadian and want to protest your country's adoption of a DMCA-style copyright bill and its participation in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, then you might want to visit the Academicalism Blog for some Twitter style messages to your elected officials.

Naturally the messages are your standard 140 characters long and will fit on a postcard - which you can mail for free in Canada to James Moore (Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages) and Tony Clement (Minister of Industry). Here's what those tweets look like:

I oppose any IP bill that includes strong digital lock provisions, excludes flexible fair dealing protections, & ignores public consultation

I oppose Canada’s secretive and undemocratic participation in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and I also oppose ACTA itself.

While these tweets are "geek chic," they will probably just confuse Canadian politicians, who probably think a "tweet" is the sound a Brown Booby might make.

Source: Boing Boing

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Re: A Tweet-Style Protest for Canadian DMCA, ACTA

Submitted by killatia on Wed, 05/12/2010 - 07:50.

I'll support anyone that fights against ACTA.

http://www.magicinkgaming.com/

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Re: A Tweet-Style Protest for Canadian DMCA, ACTA

Submitted by DorkmasterFlek on Wed, 05/12/2010 - 07:24.

Actually, both Heritage Minister James Moore (the bugger behind the forthcoming DMCA-style piece of crap, if the leaks from Ottawa are to be believed) and Minister of Industry Tony Clement have Twitter accounts and use them quite regularly. In fact, James Moore has been responding to criticism of the forthcoming bill on Twitter telling people to "wait and read the bill" before they trash it.

That having been said, I don't trust him at all and it seems highly likely that this bill will suck ass for consumers. Just pointing out that they do indeed use Twitter.

Re: A Tweet-Style Protest for Canadian DMCA, ACTA

Submitted by ZippyDSMlee on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:53.

Why not make copyright infringement and take downs a tweeter like system, each copyright gets an ID each owner gets an ID. A message is sent in with the ID numbers and the person's' in violation and a A-F code for the infringement type(IP,traces,calls, is loged). A automatic letter,robo call and email is sent out making the infringer aware of a possible violation and where to call send in info for a counter claim.

In the mean while a case number is assigned it and if there is any REAL violation taking place fine is levied against the infringer (based on vaule of IP under 100K its 250$,100K-1M its 100$,1M and up its 25$ added to whatever local fines and elvies agisnt them)and the person that sent in the claim or the IP owner pays fee based on their IP vaule under 100K its free up to 4M and under its 250$, 5M and over its 2500, this fee can be applied to court fees if the infringer is sued..

Until lobbying is a hanging offense I choose anarchy! CP/IP laws should not effect the daily life of common people! http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/

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Re: A Tweet-Style Protest for Canadian DMCA, ACTA

Submitted by MrBounce on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 18:48.

What good is this going to do when the Canadian government pretty much ignored it's public consultation the previous year to spur this new bill on? It's the same crap that happened in the UK, they're just going to steamroll this through and brush off the opposition as coming from a "very small group" of individuals.

It's pathetic how a minority government like the Harper administration is allowed to do these kind of things. Democracy at it's finest, no doubt.

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