ESA Wants Canada Kept on Piracy Watch List
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and i'm pretty sure they can't touch you if you show a box of it and a receiptAltorin said:
IE we can buy a game, then download a possibly superior pirate version legit.
or we ourselves could, POSSIBLY (I HAVE NO DEFINITE KNOWLEDGE OR EXPERIENCE ON THIS SUBJECT) crack a game for our own use...
Well that's what I said, for a bit of context, you find street sellers with pirated movies/games/softwares on nearly every corner of a major city, and so open it's not hard to find a police officer buying from them (this makes me so sad when I see).Altorin said:
And there's a brazilian thing for Argentina, it's like our nemesis country, much like an australian being called british thing.
I think the main problem they have with Canadian Copyright law is the fact that here you have the right to Copy What You Have Purchased.
That's right, in Canada you are legally entitled to make digital back ups of anything you have legally purchased, be it movies, music, videogames what have you. It's why we have a Tax on Writable Media (Blank CD's, DVD's etc.).
I can understand the concern though, Canada is very lax in implementing any sort of laws to punish those who share their "Legal Copies" because it starts to look disturbingly Orwellian. I'm pretty sure a lot of it is blocked by Canadian Privacy Laws, which I think are partially what forced Facebook to implement more user control over what information is shared/viewable to the public.
I don't really know what the solution is though, I'm fighting our bad rep in my own way by... not pirating. I mean if I REALLY want to know if an Album is worth purchasing I can use Youtube to listen to the tracks or I can just BUY them off of iTunes... is 99 cents so much?
That's right, in Canada you are legally entitled to make digital back ups of anything you have legally purchased, be it movies, music, videogames what have you. It's why we have a Tax on Writable Media (Blank CD's, DVD's etc.).
I can understand the concern though, Canada is very lax in implementing any sort of laws to punish those who share their "Legal Copies" because it starts to look disturbingly Orwellian. I'm pretty sure a lot of it is blocked by Canadian Privacy Laws, which I think are partially what forced Facebook to implement more user control over what information is shared/viewable to the public.
I don't really know what the solution is though, I'm fighting our bad rep in my own way by... not pirating. I mean if I REALLY want to know if an Album is worth purchasing I can use Youtube to listen to the tracks or I can just BUY them off of iTunes... is 99 cents so much?
Yarrr, First we be eskimo's, Now we be a great bloody country o' pirates, America needs to make up there minde on hwat we be, Yarr!
because it's showing the base of the Shadow Thieves, and that's what the ESA thinks we are in canada (and, if you read this thread, you'd be inclined to agree, it's pretty dumb really I suspect there may be some suspensionhammers coming down)ItsAPaul said:
BG2 was also made by Bioware, which at the time was an entirely Canadian Company, so it's doubly applicable!Altorin said:
Yes, we are oh so evil, always plotting how to pirate copyrighted material. We even walk around with eye patches and parrots on our shoulders, occasionally muttering "Arrr, eh?" as we travel across the snowy terrain in our dog sleds bearing the Jolly Roger flag.
True enough, I have friends in Edmonton who actually KNOW a lot of the Bioware folks [they went to the Bioware X-mas party and everything, it had Dragon Age themed drinksAltorin said:
], as well the lead animator for Mass Effect 2 went to the same High School as me and was friends with my friends brother.
Man, my dogsled broke the other day, you know how hard it is to get across this vast tundra hauling that flag around?shewolf51 said:
OT: Let 'em keep us on their list, seriously it's obviously had no impact as of yet
