Canada Fights! for the Right! of Sony, EMI, Universal…
Monday, June 16th, 2008 by Chantelle Oliver | 4 Comments »
The Year 2015:
Kid: People used to actually pay for music?
Old person/me: Yes. Yes they did.
Kid: Were you just stupid?
Old person/me: No! We were held hostage by inefficient systems of getting the music to us. We had to go outside, drive far and buy discs and plastic never knowing what we would find or how much we would have to pay.
Kid: The olden days sure sucked
Present Day:
On Thursday June 12, Canada’s Digital Milliennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Bill C-61 was barfed out of generic politician Jim Prentice’s mouth. It was simultaneously vomit and the sputum of an industry that voraciously profited from inefficient music delivery systems to become the bloated, pussy mess it is today. (more…)
