Canadian Music Industry Wants Subscriber Disclosure Without Court Oversight

An anonymous reader writes "The incredible demands of the Canadian music industry as it seeks a massive overhaul of Canadian copyright law continues. It is seeking increased liability for social networking sites, search engines, blogging platforms, video sites, and many other websites featuring third party contributions, plus a new iPod tax, and an extension in the term of copyright. Last week, it went further, demanding a requirement for Internet providers to disclose customer name and address information to copyright owners without court oversight as well as takedowns with no due process and unlimited statutory damages."

Re:You used to be cool, Canada

[the_other_one]

We are now a Harptatorship.

Found this...

[ilsaloving]

Hey, USA! *holds up rat traps with RIAA lawyers attached*

We found these in our garage. We left some money on a shelf the other day, figuring it would be ok, but it looks like these lil guys detected the scent and chewed their way inside. Do you want them back, or should we just take them to animal control to be euthanized?

Re:Holy Handgrenades Batman

[TubeSteak]

They're just following the old principle of "ask for a mile, settle for 804 meters"

Re:You used to be cool, Canada

[EdIII]

What happened to that Canada I remember, eh?

FTFY

Also first pick of virgin daughters

[19thNervousBreakdown]

Anyone found to have downloaded, listened to, performed (including whistling, humming, and spoken-word), mentioned, or remembered, whether intentionally, unintentionally, or involuntarily, any music that cannot be proven to not be covered by copyright or potentially covered by copyright in the future, or anyone in possession of any digital copies of music without a DRM spinal shunt, will be required to send their virgin daughters upon reaching age 16 for inspection to:

Royal Canadian Music Industry Headquarters
Mount Doom, Canada

Any daughters found to be desirable will be held until no longer useful. If your daughter is held, you will be responsible for a $4,000 monthly sustenance fee until such time as she is released. Anyone not in compliance with the above policies will be sued unto death or capitulation.

Re:Unlimited statutory damages?

[Adriax]

But when their beancounters divide their revenue target by their average damage award to find out how many lawsuits they want to file in a year, it'll be dividing by zero! That will create a localized singularity that'll wipe their offices off the face of....

Oooooohhhhhhhhh....
Ok.

Re:The sheer greed of these men know no bounds.

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

I'd say it was less of an export and more of a trade. After all, we got the musical stylings of William Shatner, Celine Dion, Jusin Bieber, Nickelback, and Rush. If I were Canada I wouldn't want any of them in my public domain either.

Re:So whats new?

[Baloroth]

Who do you think gave Nigeria the idea in the first place?

Re:iPod tax?!

[viperidaenz]

a Weapon of Mass Decryption?

Re:Of course not.

[DarwinSurvivor]

For those that are confused it's sort of like taxing bathing suits to compensate beach owners for people sneaking onto their beaches without paying admission, except that the money actually goes to the guy that made the "beach ahead" sign. Don't worry, it doesn't make much sense to us Canadians either.