http://www.zeropaid.com/news/87414/canada-and-the-eu-secretly-negotiating-one-strike-policy/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:36:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.zeropaid.com/news/87414/canada-and-the-eu-secretly-negotiating-one-strike-policy/#comment-220561 2009 – A ZeroPaid Year In Review – Part 3 of 3 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:56:12 +0000 http://www.zeropaid.com/?p=87414#comment-220561 [...] Canada made it into headlines in the biggest way it could. CRIA, an arm of the RIAA, was sued for a historic $6 Billion in damages for not paying artists for selling their music. Regardless of the fact that the case was merely filed, the damage was very apparent with pretty much whatever credibility they had left on copyright related issues pretty much eradicated. It was news that was so big, the owner of a record store wondered why he was being investigated for piracy for having a mere couple hundred CDs without bar codes while CRIA, an “expert witness”, stood accused of pirating hundreds of thousands of works. That didn’t stop CETA, another ACTA essentially, from rearing its ugly head though. [...] [...] Canada made it into headlines in the biggest way it could. CRIA, an arm of the RIAA, was sued for a historic $6 Billion in damages for not paying artists for selling their music. Regardless of the fact that the case was merely filed, the damage was very apparent with pretty much whatever credibility they had left on copyright related issues pretty much eradicated. It was news that was so big, the owner of a record store wondered why he was being investigated for piracy for having a mere couple hundred CDs without bar codes while CRIA, an “expert witness”, stood accused of pirating hundreds of thousands of works. That didn’t stop CETA, another ACTA essentially, from rearing its ugly head though. [...]

]]> http://www.zeropaid.com/news/87414/canada-and-the-eu-secretly-negotiating-one-strike-policy/#comment-220427 War of Words Erupt in Canadian Copyright Debate Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:22:30 +0000 http://www.zeropaid.com/?p=87414#comment-220427 [...] mongering propaganda campaign – as if irony couldn’t be any thicker. As an author who posted about the ACTA leaks at roughly the same time Geist’s post went up, I can safely say that I read through the [...] [...] mongering propaganda campaign – as if irony couldn’t be any thicker. As an author who posted about the ACTA leaks at roughly the same time Geist’s post went up, I can safely say that I read through the [...]

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