I guessed we where going to see this sort of retaliation by the exposure of many Cartel claims as False last week, pathetically they are now resorting to threats against Canada.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070214.wblacklist14/BNStory/A powerful coalition of U.S. software, movie and music producers is urging the Bush administration to put Canada on an infamous blacklist of intellectual property villains, alongside China, Russia and Belize.
Canada's chronic failure to modernize its copyright regime has made it a global hub for bootleg movies, pirated software and tiny microchips that allow video-game users to bypass copyright protections, the International Intellectual Property Alliance complains in a submission to the U.S. government.
The time has come for the United States to send a stern warning to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, which has failed to deliver on a promised overhaul of copyright laws and a policing crackdown, said the Washington-based group that represents companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Paramount Pictures.
“The industry groups feel very strongly that we need to ratchet this up,” IIPA legal counsel Steve Metalitz said.
“The disturbing thing is that the Canadian government doesn't seem to take this very seriously.”
So Paramount, Apple and Microsoft are behind the recent fraudulant claims against Canada ?
Its nice to see these groups in the open claiming all sorts of nonsense, I hope canadians pay attention to where they do their shopping in future and avoid disreputable vendors such as those above that make up false statistical claims to fire up dubiously impartial politicians into overreacting with excitable rhetoric.
