[Cdn-DMCA] A new front to fight on - the FTAA

Kristofer Coward kris at melon.org
Tue Mar 19 14:52:02 EST 2002


On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:36:16AM -0800, Chris Brand wrote:
> >  This is not a 'new front'.  What you have hilighted is one part of what
> >people were protesting in Quebec City last year.  I was also writing quite
> >a bit about WIPO and other aspects of the WTO during the Seattle protests.
> 
> Well it was new to me, from the perspective of Canadian Copyright Reform. I am aware of the protests, but didn't know that they were relevant to copyright reform. I certainly didn't mean to disparage those protests.
> 
> BTW, moving countries doesn't work (I moved from the UK to Canada 5 years ago). The bad laws follow you.

Well of course moving fro the UK to Canada didn't work; you didn't even
leave the G7. If you're moving to avoid stupid laws, you've got to go
to some Carribean or South Pacific tax/banking/whatever haven, or at
least to Switzerland. :)

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