WASHINGTON -- The International Intellectual Property Alliance Friday submitted its annual report to the U.S. Trade Representative recommending that 10 countries, including Canada, be placed on a watch list for ”rampant online and physical piracy of copyrighted works and severe market access barriers.”

The organization, which includes the Independent Film & Television Alliance, the Motion Picture Association of America, the National Music Publishers’ Association and Recording Industry Association of America, also named Argentina, Chile, China, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand and Ukraine in its rogue’s gallery.

Canada, “standing virtually alone among developed economies,” according to the report, has failed to take a robust stand against online copyright infringement.

“Canada’s enforcement record also falls far short of what should be expected of our neighbour and largest trading partner, with ineffective border controls, insufficient enforcement resources, inadequate enforcement policies, and a seeming inability to impose deterrent penalties on pirates,” report goes on to say. “Canada’s Parliamentary leadership and Government, at the highest levels, have acknowledged many of these deficiencies, but have done little to address them.”

Google agreed in August 2011 to forfeit $500 million gleaned from online advertising from dubious Canadian pharmaceutical sellers.

The IIPA says “core” copyright-based industries in the U.S. accounted for an estimated $931.8 billion or 6.36 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, and employing nearly 5.1 million workers, or 3.93 of all U.S. workers, in 2010.
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HaHa boohoo to bad for you, We like our free downloads.

Here we go again....sticking our nose where it don't belong.
Canada is a peaceful country and everyone I know from there is happy with the way things are.
Most people I know here..hate the way things are.

Lol if any of our politicians want to be reelected
they won't touch this issue lol

We Canadian pride ourselves on our internet freedom,
compared to other countries where you go to jail
for downloading a little music.

Like it's annoying enough can't post
anything to youtube if it even has a
few seconds of a song playing on a radio
in the background.

The US is going a little too far with this
copyright and piracy BS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrhA0sEkuaM

Bashed Canada a little too there, but I think
that would be a swell idea.

Like really aside from a few places in Europe
what better country is there in the world.

No offense to my neighbors to the south as
I know it's not the peoples fault, but
American has kinda turned in to a joke.

I find it amusing that as a country it
still thinks itself superior to others.

It is a swell idea, it was also a joke...kinda.

Yeah I know but it shouldn't be, but then again
I believe strongly in a one world government.

yep,getting your "Free" Downloads under a One-World Government!

It shows the priorities of our leaders here in the US doesn't it? They are more interested in supporting big money than the freedoms of its citizens.

well since that government would be nothing like the US,
yeah that would be sweet and a dream come true.

Be it a written novel or a composed song with lyrics, SOMEONE made it and has done it to earn a living? I don't see a Red Cross on MY back... What makes me think they have one on theirs? Canada is no China.... Shame on us for not protecting the copyrights of others. A song is just a song... right! If it was that easy, go ahead and do it... If it makes it to top 20... Just know, JOHNN111 won't steal your chit.

I work for a living.... So do Artists!

say that next time you buy a season of
Keeping Up with the Kardashians or the
simple life.

So support your local arts scene. Pirating Fergie or some Hollywood mega-blockbuster isn't hurting anyone but the rich fat cat sycophantic leeches who attach themselves parasitically to the more relevant people around them. Yeah, the kardashians are doing fine.