O Canada! The Canadian DMCA version of the national anthem

Today on the nerdy comic-strip User Friendly -- a new version of the Canadian national anthem, in honour of the terrible proposal for a Canadian version of the US DMCA, a copyright law that has led to 20,000 lawsuits against music fans, terrible damage to innovation and free speech, all without paying artists or preventing infringement. Link (Thanks, Bruce!)

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madjo

Cory, I do not want to be an ass here or anything, but is there a reason why the copyright notice was cropped from the comic you posted here?
Strixy

Shouldn’t that last line read, “all your IP are belong to us?”

he he…
lunarworks

Great. I’d managed to completely flush the unfunny horror that is UserFriendly out of my brain. Now I’m aware of it again. Thanks.
Sue Grant

Thanks so much for posting User Friendly here, that strip always makes me laugh :)
Davin

I’m pretty sure I want the time back that it took me to look at that. I demand a Boingboing refund!

How much do I pay for this again? Oh. Shoot.
Domster

You want a refund, I want a french verse. Tomaeto, tomahto.
daylmer

LOL, I love it. Thanks for the early morning laugh! :)