The other day, some info on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, Leaked out to the internet.
To summarize things: its bad.
The recent Canadian copyright consultations had the public speak out, and express their opinions on copyright law, and from the responses I came across, the public was strongly opposed to strengthening these laws. many people even expressed a strong desire to loosen up these laws, abolish crown copyright, and expand fair dealing laws, (or, "fair use", for those more familiar with the American terminology.) With clear exemptions made for education, research, parody, and format shifting.
The people have spoken, and with the current political climate in Canada, the minority Conservative government's hands are tied, but then these sneaky little things called "International Trade Agreements" come along, and bypass the democratic process of my country, and push laws onto people who have recently made it very clear that they do not want these laws.
These companies have failed to adapt to a changing market place.
Rather than having their business adapt to meet the desires of their customers, they are having the laws changed to enforce their business models on to the customers.
To the corporations who are stuck in the 20th century way of doing things, and to the politicians who are too damn old and out of touch to understand the direction that society is moving, I want to explain how things work these days,and have a message for you:
Freedom and Unconstrained Creativity and Knowledge
Yell Out: Unite. Assemble.
So, Success Hovers Over those who Let Everyone Share.
:)
Thank You.
~Kyle Clements
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links:
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/policy-laundering/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/http://techdirt.com/articles/20091103/1308526784.shtmlhttp://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre...http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/16/165256/Secret-ACTA...http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/these-42-...http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Canada+talks+over+c...http://podcast.cbc.ca/shows/on/aih/aihstreaming_20091106_...http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/722454--stil...http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number7.22/acta-mobilizing-t...http://techdirt.com/articles/20091119/1904177017.shtmlhttp://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/mpaa-acta-letter/http://anticounterfeitingtradeagreement.com/http://wikileaks.org/wiki/European_Commission_%22advance_...,_30_Sep_2009
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yay, 50,000 views as of November 9th, 2008, this is awesome! 71 subscribers, 92 videos.
Today, November 9th, 2009, I've got some new stats: 136,000 views, 175 subscribers, 127 videos.
Thank you all for continuing to tune in to my channel, even though the "Kyle in Korea" Series is more or less over. It's hard to make more Korea videos when I'm no longer in Korea (but I do have a green screen...hmm...)
~kyle
I'm a technology education teacher in Southern NJ. I teach Video Production and Engineering. I have a couple of scorebot robots I'm working with while on vacation. Are you still in Korea. I thought about going there and teaching or somewhere else.
thank you all for your interest in my channel. after I get some work out of the way, I will post some newer footage of life back home in Canada.