A small indie record store owner in Ottawa, Canada, has plead guilty to a
charge of copyright infringement for importing rare CDs from abroad.
Apparently, these discs (which are themselves licensed, as far as I can
tell) aren’t licensed for sale in Canada, and Canadian law (apparently)
bans this kind of parallel importation.
But none of these CDs are actually available in Canada. And no one
orders rare, expensive imports unless he’s already got the artist’s
entire catalog. And, of course, the record labels that went after this
record store owner (whose whole purpose in life is to sell their CDs) are presently being sued for $60 billion in copyright damages for ripping off artists, and have admitted to $50 million in liability already.
Based on a survey of Tumblr users’ professed career ambitions, I’ve concluded that our ideal occupations are:
writer
lighthouse keeper
specialty bookstore clerk
patent examiner
ornamental hermit
surveillance drone operator
hunter-gatherer
sign painter
web designer circa 1996
that wild-eyed guy with the unplaceable Eastern European accent who greets the protagonist when they set foot aboard the ostensibly abandoned undersea research facility and/or space station
long-haul zeppelin pilot
roadside attraction proprietor
semi-estranged third child of disreputable petty nobility
