The Canadian DMCA: What You Can Do

[robot851]

Lol, you are all fails. There was a bill introduced in June that said all of this stuff would be legal. So this video is all wrong. Don't freak out over it.

[newstream2010]

Fuck the Harper Government. Let tell Stephen Harper that he is fired!!! Fire him with your vote and together with the NDP or Liberal Government we can and we will KILL THIS BILL!!!!

[MaddJP]

Most of the people I warn about this incoming law don't give a shit, and the others who care just won't take the time to write a letter, they're all taking a defeatist attitude.

[eproulx]

Guys, is this video up to date? It was posted in 2007...

[rgbk73]

"The people should not be afraid of the government, but the government should be afraid of the people"

V of Vendetta

Wait, is this illegal too, it's copied from a movie right?!

[vampjoseph11]

Under this revision, for lack of a better term, of The Copyright Act, the cops could arbitrarily come into your home, sieze all of your devices and jail you if they think you have copyrighted material. EVEN IF YOU CREATED OR OWN IT. Under this stupid and ill advised farce you'd have to close down every school, library, media outlet and BAN THE INTERNET along with jailing EVERYONE IN CANADA because US industry is whining that we don't have stiff copyright laws like them.

[realistic28]

I just thought of a really good question for the MPAA, Why haven't the major hollywood movie/music labels ask for bail out money since the economy lapse? This really proves that they are liars!

[imawesome432]

FUCK HARPER!!!!!!11

[realistic28]

Harper has got to. I think NDP will do a better job. I hope we do go back to the polls because this government is killing us slowly. I am voting NDP!

[camadai]

search trough creative commons page an you will found very nice stuff. that's the way to protest.

its so obviously that a TAX is for Big companie´s pockets;, so if Canada switch to open source, stop listen radio station, stop seeing TV, (actually you can see much better TV on internet) all of you will be unstoppable because they cant to obligate to a Nation to pay a TAx for an non-existent supossition (that all consumer are pirates and because we use CDS and DVDS burners with internet)

[camadai]

i think Canadians are making this wrong.

send a letter its not the way,

if this Jim Perruchi claims for taxes to copyrights, the thing to do is that Canadians have to switch to open source. stop listen the 40 songs chart and begin to listen new artists wich offers free songs on myspace, on lastfm,on reverbnation,, they are more great than a britney spears a metallica, a shakira, etc,

[CanadianBob7]

To oppose Harper and his Fascism, vote for the Green Party, NDP or Liberals this coming election.

[rick383]

Canadian men and women should just stop buying all electrical devices that we would use for copying any material such as computers dvd recorders tape recorders, or any photo copy machines of any kind yes even mp3 players or ipods. hit the government in their pockets. purchasing any of these products we pay taxes on, and yet we will not be able to use them freely if bill c61 passes. will we be charged 500 dollars for singing, whistling, humming our favourite song?

[YoungJatt91]

Agreed. What about libraries? Will we next be asked to pay to use a library?

This issue has more to do with the music and film industry and government in America than anything else. The Canadian government is being manipulated by US lobbyists and corporations to destroy our FREEDOM.

We need our government to start working how it was intended to, for them to listen to us and not us to them. The government has to hear us out and do what WE want, not what the US or the big corporations want!

[lorddarunia]

what song

[Imbrickle]

It's an awkward situation that we are in. Historically, there is nothing like it.

Telling people that their culture, which they participate in, create and share, does not belong to them.

[cinepie]

60+ channels of American-tv SHOWING in CANADA? =CULTURE WISE are we all yankees ?

Where is the CANADIAN TV CONTENT ????

Not ONE CANADIAN-MOVIE-THEATER IN CANADA IS SHOWING ANY CANADIAN FILMS ?

TODAY =10,000 UNEMPLOYED-CANADIANS-ARE NOT WORKING in FILM & TELEVISION ...We Talented Canadians are all waiting for The AMERICANS To COME SHOOT IN CANADA and Hire CANADIANS to make AMERICAN MEDIA for CANADIANS OF ALL AGES! to Watch.

TIME TO THINK YOU HAVE BEEN AMERICAN PROGRAMED FOR A REASON!

[takotheoktopus]

This is just one more of many reasons why I hate Harper.

[Krypticflask]

Pirates will always get around

[Chumkil]

This has nothing to do with piracy, and everything to do with freedom.

[jakfox44]

Piracy is an alternative to the copyright issue, If you're going to be charged for it unfairly, steal it.

[johnnymegabyte]

and the freedom for a musician to make a living, not stealign music because you can via the internet.

[justinl81]

I say if a person or group develops content and won't release that content under terms that you find acceptable then pretend it was never developed and ignore the content.

Though, I do find copyright draconian, but I'm a thousand times as frustrated by our drug prohibition, our limits on original free speech (try questioning israel in public), our forcible state sponsorship of various industry cartels, our tax-at-gunpoint social programs, and other laws that I find authoritarian.

[Rustyshackleford08]

I will NEVER buy a DVD or CD again if they do this.

[shaunweavers]

I'm going to lead this whole thing and be bringing in a HUGE 2008. I'm in to stand right up front and fight it out to the end. I know what it's like to have been victimized by the injustice you stand up against.

=PEACE=

[reyhome]

this is crazy move

[crackedglassheart]

People of Canada. We need to stand together and fight for fair use of copyright. I have purchased more dvd's knowing that dvd shrink and hd dvd fab decrypter will allow me to back up my dvd's.I have a wonderful program by magic that allows you to back up cd's that have copy protection. When I can no longer back up my cd/dvd collection I will not buy anymore.We need a protest to send a message to Ottawa!

[ideomotion]

What the copyright act should be

1. Only individuals can own copyright.

2. When copyright holders die the copyright expires ten years later.

3. Individuals cannot breach copyright unless they are significantly profiting financially from it.

4. No more laws protecting business' perceived right to gouge consumers.

5. No more "terms of use". You sold it. I bought it. It was yours, now its mine, and I can do what I want with it.

6. Digital rights management illegal.

[smiley392781]

I went to the Online Rights Canada site and they have an easy link you can folow to send a letter to your MP. It is in the body of the article "Countdown to a New Copyright Bill". It would be a shame if the bill gets through unchanged simply because the average Canadian is too busy to take an interest. Figures they would try to get it through at this time of year.

[LawrencesLair]

You can always count on Conservative reactionaries to take a sledge hammer to a problem when a scalpel is what's needed.

[mkiozipangbuu]

Don't lose your freedom.

[mandovert]

Blah-blah-blah... write to Santa, write to Easter Bunny.

[GuitarKat5612]

Creative Commons for the win!

Stop this from happening!

[RR123RR]

Go go go, before we're sold out to the dying corporate model...

[breakaway1234]

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