URGENT MESSAGE TO CANADIANS, Our way of life is in danger!

URGENT MESSAGE TO CANADIANS
Our way of life is in danger!
Digg this!My fellow Canadians, a matter of the greatest importance has come to our attention. TOMORROW new laws will be passed by the Canadian government which will effectively OUTLAW the use of modchips and flash carts, among other things.

This new copyright reform in the form of the Canadian DMCA has been influenced by US lobby groups rather than the voice of the Canadian people. What we're faced with is legislation that is potentially even more extreme than that of the US DMCA which is what allows the RIAA, MPAA, etc to function in the United States as they do.

This would be a blow not only to Canada, civil rights, and copyright law, but also YOUR rights, this fine community, and all of the businesses that make their living by selling said products. Our digital way of life would effectively come to a stop. They're even going as far as proposing a minimum $500 fine per incident. While copyright reform is an important issue, this is not the way to go about it.

In response to this backdoor policy-making a growing movement and coalition has been actively pursuing making the Canadian voice heard in this legislative process. All is NOT lost; they previously attempted to impose similar legislation back in December but this very movement's response stopped them in their tracks. We MUST speak up! We MUST make ourselves heard before it's too late!

As such the Canadian Coalition for Electronic Rights has created a simple pre-written letter sending service that will allow for us to be heard. I implore any and all Canadians to use this service to send a letter to Prime Minister, Stephen Harper; Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry; and Jos

And...how exactly are they going to stop anyone from using them?

lol? -_-

bull =p

Lol

what are mod chips and flash carts?

Things that let's your console play copied games.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Fuck this, netherlands, here i come :]

America is right over the border, if you don't look like a terrorist. Then, find a motel and mod there.

..way of life? More like way of usage.

Flash cards are used for more then just pirating. (Arrr!) They are used for homebrew/development too. This would be a major disappointment to developers.

Well if they wanna stop you from playing copied games - that is somewhat a step taken to avoid piracy. SO there's not much you people can really do over buying games I guess.

wow canada is getting fucked pretty fast

in the race to become a police state ur gonna catch up to the UK soon

Y'know I actually put the lighter down, pulled my large leather seat in, and read this, ....I pity you canadians, I really do.

Wow.. the US is already fucked up in it's own way. So shush about Canada. People are still going to copy games, and there is nothing they can do about it.

come to australia
http://i32.tinypic.com/1t3ds9.jpg

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Originally Posted by Cask

come to australia
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He lives in Austria...

lol

No idea but I saw the thread title "URGENT MESSAGE TO CANADIANS" and expected the contents to be "Kill yourselves!" :sad:

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Originally Posted by Cask

come to australia
http://i32.tinypic.com/1t3ds9.jpg

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lol you suck for getting that wrong. Well spotted kyle -_-

Do you seriously consider flash carts your way of life? lol

Thank god I'm a rich mofo.

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Originally Posted by Canon

lol you suck for getting that wrong. Well spotted kyle -_-

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no shit. if you went on 4chan you'd know what i'm on about, lol.

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Originally Posted by Cask

no shit. if you went on 4chan you'd know what i'm on about, lol.

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if you went on 4chan you'd know that it's full of 14 year old newfags looking to fit into the new scene and 40 year old oldfags there for newfag nudes.

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Originally Posted by Cask

come to australia
http://i32.tinypic.com/1t3ds9.jpg

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Ha ha .. roflmao .. the statement cracked me up ...roflmao.

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Originally Posted by iNs@nE

Ha ha .. roflmao .. the statement cracked me up ...roflmao.

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YAY INSANE YOUR ON! cant see any others on :(

On topic: haha funny pic


Ps:soz im drunk n horny

err the way of life in Canada is to play pirated games?

Apparently...

I have to admit saying that pirated software is your way of life is pretty lame lol, get a job, earn some cash, and go out and buy the game legit :P I know copied games can be very useful, but it's getting to a stupid stage now. Especially on PC, game designers are actually stopping games on PC and going for console only now.

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Originally Posted by -Strider-

I have to admit saying that pirated software is your way of life is pretty lame lol, get a job, earn some cash, and go out and buy the game legit :P I know copied games can be very useful, but it's getting to a stupid stage now. Especially on PC, game designers are actually stopping games on PC and going for console only now.

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And now please explain why mod chips and flash cars are only used for piracy. If you did that please explain why homebrew should be outlawed. Thanks.

Well I only stated what had been in discussion lol, if it wasn't for piracy they wouldn't have been outlawed would they? If people are going to missuse and abuse things this will be the outcome. I don't think homebrew should be outlawed at all.

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Originally Posted by KyleEnos

if you went on 4chan you'd know that it's full of 14 year old newfags looking to fit into the new scene and 40 year old oldfags there for newfag nudes.

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Agreed. I get kids coming up to me and asking me if I fap, etc. And then at school, some autistic kid is yelling out "divide by zero!" :rolleyes:

They over-use memes; and use ED as their sauce.

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Originally Posted by Initiate

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Fuck this, netherlands, here i come :]

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Modchips are banned here.

Will only be a matter of time before flashcards go aswell. I mean let's face it, i got a R4DS for obviously my DS, and it's focussed on playing DS games, do you really expect that companies sit by while you download every game.

If you want such things to stay/be legal, then they need to offer valuable legal purposes. I mean the music and movie industry wanted to ban CD's and later DVD's aswell (long before that tapes aswell btw), but because of the many legal ways it can be used aswell, they simply didn't have enough to ban it. With modchips and all that, it's really quite clear, and therefor it makes perfect sense for them to get banned.

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And now please explain why mod chips and flash cars are only used for piracy. If you did that please explain why homebrew should be outlawed. Thanks.

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exactly all the piracy fags can suck it... we use this stuff to develope homebrew games and apps to share as freeware to give the community not illegal games... say i wanted to make a gameboy game and wanted it to play on Gba/ds? i am stuck emulating it on Pc. say i did not want to support nintendo's fine web browser and made one for the Ds better then the Ds one.... that is where the flash carts and other stuff... maybe i wanted to hack a gamecube and run gamecube linux on it... thats where the main base is... the others are cretins that steal games...

Also those cretins may ALREADY own the game but cannot use the normal one because the cartridge battery died that means no saving and in final fantasy 1 for Nes my battery died so i got a emulator and got the games i own... would it be piracy if i got the game cart.... No because it is only giving you access to property you own...

and as im learning coding im also doing homebrew apps for my wii because of these carts and mod chips.

next time you ass' think of shouting "piracy" do some bloody research...

and as for the Pc game piracy i do it to try the game... i bought portal after pirating it and developers will have to find a way to stop piracy... i personally think a every 30 day online validation would be a excellent idea... and for internet-less people give them the phone activation to do every 30 days...

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and as for the Pc game piracy i do it to try the game... i bought portal after pirating it and developers will have to find a way to stop piracy... i personally think a every 30 day online validation would be a excellent idea... and for internet-less people give them the phone activation to do every 30 days...

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Lolz, photoshop is a prime example of how easy it was to by-pass phone activation. Stupid idea imo, only companys who don't fail at this are the ones who require an online login from a webserver which needs to be validated and is constantly checking the connection.

Lew.

this is like saying you can't have a VCR because you can use it to copy and play pirated tapes...

Or outlawing DVD writers, because there are ways of copying commercial DVD's...

Unbelievable.

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Originally Posted by evill33t

And now please explain why mod chips and flash cars are only used for piracy. If you did that please explain why homebrew should be outlawed. Thanks.

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Not sure why i didn't comment on this the first time around.

The thing about these things is, is that they allow piracy, you think if they can code all that, that they couldn't code a device that will ONLY allow homebrew and all. The fact is that if they want to limit them, then they can, the reason that they don't, is because 99% of the people use them for illegal goals.

So if a cartridge was made to run homebrew and only homebrew, then it wouldn't be banned as it can't be used to do anything illegal with it.