Bill C-61: The Canadian DMCA (1/3)

This man is an idiot...Leave the copyright alone, who cares if we have copyright laws on level with China and Russia...

Next step is censoring the internet...

New media (internet) + old media (CDs, DVDs) = MORTAL COMBAT.

His thousands of emails were likely white, upper crust Americans wanted to screw over regular folk.

They aren't "fines" according to Prentice though. They are "damages" sued out of you by the copyright holder.

The insane bit is that all creators will include DRM (digial locks) on their content, since they will automatically make the damages $20,000 instead of capped at $500. The market is rejecting DRM, and here, Conservatives are looking at protecting and encouraging it!

what a tool for the USA corporations.

bill c-61 will make circumventing drm illegal, so all that the mpaa/riaa have to do is put drm onto all media to block you from time and format shifting.

what an absolute tool.

the anti circumvention drm measure means that the mpaa/riaa can lock us all out of all media by using drm which with bill c-61 is illegal.

THIS NEEDS TO BE STOPPED!!!!!

If they put this through... it's going to be a wild ride.

Why are we pandering to companies that won't exist in a matter of years. This is simply an antiquated way of looking at intellectual property and is neither realistic, fair, creative, nor going to hold up to the tidal wave of technology and our new freedoms. It is simply criminalizing culture, and criminalizing children.