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June 11, 2009, 7:41pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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Once again, a US Senator has bad mouthed Canada as a "severe disappointment" for appearing in the US "watch list" for Top Copyright Infringing Countries.  http://www.gamepolitics.com/20.....ver-copyright-issues.
The justification is largely a myth (http://www.canada.com/technology/Time+slay+Canada+file+sharing+myths/1676317/story.html) and has been discredited (http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/28/conference-board-copyright-geist.html)
Furthermore, Canada is nowhere near the level of piracy this list implies.  (source:http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3919/159/)
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The Business Software Alliance's 2008 statistics show that among the eleven other countries on this year's Priority Watch List for which data is available, the lowest rate of software piracy is 66 percent.  By comparison, Canada stands at 32 percent, not remotely close to any other country on the list.  In fact, Canada's software piracy rate is lower than all 46 countries named in the Special 301 report.


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