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Acting Up Against a New Millennium

Back when Parliament Hill was in the throes of its last electoral shake-up, Bill C-61, An Act to amend the Copyright Act, was nearly forgotten, buried beneath all the high-stakes drama of a government on the brink. When Governor General Michaëlle Jean dissolved the thirty-ninth parliament at Harper's request on September 7, 2008, the legislation died, with a promised—or threatened—resurrection should the Conservatives win re-election.

Local big-brained post-punks The Craft Economy are doing what they do again, and getting creative with their distro. If you happened to be bopping around the Hillside Festival in Guelph this past weekend, you might have spotted—or manned up and grabbed—one of the 150 discs seen above (licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 license) out of a tree or off of a pole once your curiosity got the best of you. Good thing, because that's what they're there for.

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