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Copyright bill protests surge online
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by mtippett | June 14, 2008 at 09:47 pm
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Thousands of Canadians wasted no time protesting the government's copyright reform bill, piling on to websites and joining internet-based letter-writing campaigns on Friday.More than 7,000 people joined a Facebook group within a day of the bill's introduction on Thursday morning, bringing its total membership to more than 48,000 people.
The group — started on the popular social-networking site late last year by Michael Geist, a University of Ottawa internet law professor — is credited for scaring the Conservatives off of introducing the bill in December after initially attracting more than 20,000 members.
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at 06:53 on June 15th, 2008
Never mind Facebook- call your representatives. Tell them they'll be out of a job should they take orders from American lobbyists. If we're getting USA legislation, then we want In-n-Out Burger, too.
Your iPod and Slingbox are not criminal paraphernalia today, why should they be considered as such tomorrow?
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