Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM

An anonymous reader writes "Some of Canada's best known musicians, including Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlin, Sum 41, and Barenaked Ladies, have formed a new copyright coalition. The artists say in a press release that they oppose file sharing lawsuits, the use of DRM, and DMCA-style legislation and that they want record labels to stop claiming that they represent their views."

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For once

[SirLestat]

I am from Quebec and finally proud to be Canadian ! Way to go guys !

repeat in america please....

[jollyroger1210]

Why don't American artist replicate this type of coalition? We let Canada beat us!! Canada!

Re:Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlin

[dr_dank]

Wow, that represents about 80% of my beat-off fantasy time right there.

No need to post as AC to admit that. Now, if you'd said Gordon Lightfoot and Bryan Adams on the other hand...

Missing Artist

[kloffinger]

TFA: "Canada's leading artists to speak for themselves."
Yet there is no mention of Bryan Adams.
What kind of a hoax is this?

Re:Heh

[Anonymous Coward]

Bush: Also apart of the Axis of Evil >_>

Actually, Bush is a British band.

If I had a million dollars...

[Stick_Fig]

"...we wouldn't have to download torrents!"

"But we would download torrents! In fact, we'd just download more!"

Re:That just shows

[Anne_Nonymous]

>> Avril Lavigne

I don't know anything about the person or her music, but that name always sounds like a feminine hygiene product to me.

Record companies smarter than they seem

[AeroIllini]

I think the record companies are blaming piracy because it's a solid business case.

addDRM(music);
switch (whatHappensAfter) {
  case "piracy goes down":
    println("See?! We TOLD you the evil pirates were stealing! DRM works!");
    addMoreDRM(music,movies,television,software);
    money++;
    break;
  case "piracy goes up":
    println("Ahh! They're stealing more to spite us! This is war!");
    addMoreDRM(music,movies,television,software);
    money++;
    break;
  case "piracy stays the same":
    println("Those filthy pirates will steal no matter what we do! We must make the DRM stronger!");
    addMoreDRM(music,movies,television,software);
    money++;
    break;
}

These artists just created a buffer overflow. Woo!

Not suprising from Avril Lavigne...

[brian0918]

It's no surprise that Avril Lavigne would do something like this... given her huge punk heritage and following, her fans would definitely get pissed off and leave her negative® text messages if she didn't rebel.

Re:For once

[Locke2005]

Wow! One Quebequoi that actually wants to be a Canadian! Now, if you could just convince the other 7,568,639 residents of Quebec that being Canadian isn't so bad, then we'd really have something!

Re:For once

[jonnythan]

What does Quebec have to do with Canada? :)

Great!

[imadork]

It's almost enough to forgive them for inflicting Celine Dion on us....

Re:Missing Artist

[masdog]

I didn't see Shatner's name on the list either.

Re:Great!

[Jerry Rivers]

Yeah it's unthinkable that she is one of the most popular shows in Vegas, and that millions of people who adore her singing have bought millions of her albums.

Re:repeat in america please....

[TubeSteak]

Don't worry, we've got contigency plans for this type of thing.

Canada's low gun ownership rate will make the occupation much easier.

Re:For once

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but try getting some good poutine in Prague.

Re:write to them and say thank you

[Anonymous Coward]

When was that last time you saw a successful business model where you sue the pants out of your customers? :)

Well if you were in the business of selling more pants ..

Re:Great!

[Darwin_Frog]

Now, now. The Canadian government has apologized for Celine Dion on several occasions.

Avril Lavigne? Sum 41?

[volfro]

I suppose the title uses the term "music" loosely.

Re:For once

[Arker]

One Quebequoi that actually wants to be a Canadian!

Sorry, Quebe-what?

Oh, I slay myself.

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Re:well duh

[Chuqmystr]

Avril Lavigne? So we have Canada to blame for this pox. First Celine and now Avril. C'mon Canada, what the hell did we ever do to you? Well, other than that lil' Southpark song thingie... Please, for the love of humanity, take her back and freaking keep her. Perhaps there should be DRM up there. It should keep Avril Lavigne songs from being played anywhere but within the Canadian borders and at the same time prevent any music but hers from playing within the Canadian boarders. That'll teach 'em!

Re:Not suprising from Avril Lavigne...

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow... you don't say? Here is another Wikipedia page I think you may be interested in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm [wikipedia.org]

Cheers

Re:well duh

[rikkards]

Avril Lavigne? So we have Canada to blame for this pox. First Celine and now Avril. C'mon Canada, what the hell did we ever do to you? Well, other than that lil' Southpark song thingie... Please, for the love of humanity, take her back and freaking keep her. Perhaps there should be DRM up there. It should keep Avril Lavigne songs from being played anywhere but within the Canadian borders and at the same time prevent any music but hers from playing within the Canadian boarders. That'll teach 'em!

4 words buddy.
Britney Spears and nSync

Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house

Re:well duh

[Meagermanx]

...and with those words, the great Slashdot Canada/USA Music Flamewar of '06 broke out. It was truly the "post read 'round the world."

Re:well duh

[TubeSteak]

...and with those words, the great Slashdot Canada/USA Music Flamewar of '06 broke out. It was truly the "post read 'round the world."

As a result, Ponies everywhere were found alone, disheveled and crying because their owners left in order to defend Avril from the most heinous Chuqmystr.

Re:rush

[Physician]

Unfortunately Rush Limbaugh is only one man. However, I had no idea that he was in a rock band in an earlier life. I'm kind of surprised. :)

Re:well duh

[gstoddart]

Avril Lavigne? So we have Canada to blame for this pox. First Celine and now Avril. C'mon Canada, what the hell did we ever do to you? Well, other than that lil' Southpark song thingie...

The Partridge Family. Full House. Mini Pops. Ricky Martin. Bob Barker. Fox News. Everybody loves Raymond. McDonalds. American Idol. Oprah (and Dr. Phil). Paris Hilton. That Kato guy. The list goes on ...

We exported Celine Dion and Avril Lavigne to see if you'd get the joke. People keep buying tickets, so apparently not.

Oh, and BTW, you can keep Howie Mandell and Alex Trebeck too. We want Shatner back though. ;-)

Re:repeat in america please....

[S3pulchrav3]

You're talking about the war of 1812 right?

Re:well duh

[bhirsch]

We generally don't tend to riot against the democratic process here.

Re:well duh

[bhirsch]

Of course I am being sarcastic. We all know that Haliburton, at Dick Cheney's command, used stolen CIA time travel technology to go back and rig the election. That's a given.

Re:repeat in america please....

[Anonymous Coward]

Amazingly enough, the reason we have more rifles than handguns is simple: handguns are pretty much useless against polar bears!

Not a week goes by that I don't have to defend my igloo against a polar bear attack!

Re:Not suprising from Avril Lavigne...

[brian0918]

"Are you fucking kidding me?"

Yes, I was. You didn't get the joke. Next time, read the rest of the post, and check for sarcasm.

AMERICA FTW!

[Shihar]

The American have a secret weapon though. We will enter one of your clean cities fully armed and then when confronted we will start to litter. As you Canadians desperately try to pick up our empty cans of shitty American beer and bring them to a recycling station you will be completely vulnerable to our cop killing FMJ semi-automatic assault rifles, grotesquely large hand guns, and the odd red neck wielding a bazooka or machine gun that he bought before they were made illegal.

Canadians fleeing to the recycling station with shitty American beer cans in hand will be easy picking off by our highly skilled red neck population. While our gansta/thug population might be a little questionable in their aim, they will make up for it with round output and shear enthusiasm at being given the chance to bust a cap in yo cracker ass. To the Canadians defense though, our skinny white guy wanna be rappers from the 'burbs will likely take out a few Americans as they hold guns bigger then their head sideways and shoot like fucking retards.

We will send then send in the upper middle suburban punks dressed in 200+ dollar outfits of pre-ripped black jeans, black shirts with an obscure band on it, and metal studs randomly glued on to their clothing to clean up the mess. They will hunt down the surviving Canadians in a desperate attempt to retrieve the empty cans of shitty American beer in the hopes of draining the last drops of swill that might be left at the bottom of the can. The wrist scarred (across the street style, not down the highway) teenaged girls , feminine teenaged guys, and sketchy 40 year old men goths at that point will come out to add insult to injury by read shitty poetry about death and try to one up each other by doing grotesque things to the corpses.

Have no fear though, us Americans are not without compassion and mercy. We will blast some shitty (is there any other type?) emo music over the battlefield and send the emo kids out. They will promptly start to cry. True, they are crying at the memory of their long lost sixth grade girlfriend and lamenting at the difficulty of their inhumanly difficult life living in suburban America, but we can pretend they are crying for lost Canadian souls.

Oh hell, what is a little karma. At least I amuse myself.

Re:Barenaked ladies changing foot?

[TheSpoom]

* Hoping to foil the swapping of her American Life album, Madonna created full-length decoy files that contained a few seconds of music and the message, "What the (expletive) do you think you're doing?" Some downloaders responded by sampling the rant and creating their own music tracks around it.

Bwahahaha, leave it to pirates to illegally remix an antipiracy track ;^)

Re:AMERICA FTW! : CANADIAN RESPONSE

[erbmjw]

Ha ha silly Americans! You think that by dropping shitty American empty beer cans on our pristine cities and heavenly nature reserves that we Canadians will respond with a recycling program ... well then, you should have picked plastic as your litter of choice!

The mere sight of crappy American beer cans {empty or not} brings out the deeply cherished Canadian Hockey Fan in every person who has spent at least one hockey season in Canada.

Sticks will appear {seemingly from nowhere}, pucks will fly faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a speeding locomotive {yeah the big "S" was invented in Canada}, and to add insult to injury skate blades will be used to run over your multitudes, twitching, soon to be remains.

After this induced frenzy has calmed, we Canadains will then politley bandaged any surviving Americans {not many}, administer Tim Horton's coffee and donuts to stablize them, and return them to their home state for medical care.

On the bright side though, the American emo kids will still be there to cry over your remains - primarily because we Canadains are polite and so don't pick on the whiners. Oh that and we'll need the emo kids to carry the empty American beer cans back across the border!

Both your and my karma are now rapidly dropping, but at least you amused me!

:)

Re:well duh

[chrismcdirty]

Blame Mexico for Ricky Martin. He was in Menudo long before he regained popularity in the 90s.

And you can have Shatner back if we can keep Evangeline Lilly and Elisha Cuthbert. Deal?