Jim Prentice Tries To Defend The Canadian DMCA Bill C-61

Industry Minister Jim Prentice comes under fire during question period for being to sympathetic to US corporate interests by introducing Bill C-61 (Canadian DMCA) which stands to criminalize Canadian consumer actions. It is unreasonable to accept legislation that gives consumers rights with one hand and quickly takes them away with the other.

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• prentice
• cdmca
• dmca
• copyright
• canada
• c-61

[gvmcmullen]

Absolutely absurd. Prentice continues to dodge any question relating to anti-circumvention, the most important part of this bill, and refuses to acknowledge that Bill C-61 criminalizes the legitimate daily activities of millions of Canadians. Use rights cannot be left to the whims of content corps. Prentice either does not understand technology or is declaring war on the digital generation.

[sega31098]

C-61........SUCKS!

[megamogx]

Jim Prentice is a giant sell out, now he works for bell one of the monopolies he allowed the CRTC to get away with horrible UBB and only serves to sell out to the highest bidder.

[computertech1979]

lol...@ 2:37 listen very carefully, someone shouts out to Jimmy "How about you being shifted" lol...and he was shifted...I like it!

[newstream2010]

VOTE NDP To FLUSH The DMCA back to the USA!

[xSS4x]

The stupid part is this is all a money making scheme from whoever enforce these laws because they get to fine ppl hefty amount of cash that the artist, who's right are supposedly being trampled on, will not get so how is it helping protecting anyone?

[steveaustin71]

@Fayceee So you have read C-61 then, and you understand it? You know that you will not be in violation of the law onces its in place? Ignorance of the law won't protect you from it.

[laxpol]

Angus is an idiot

[bulltexan1]

Private butler!!!! HAHAHAHA

This looked like monty pythons flying circus.....

[terrec]

again charlie angus is right. Iam an american . Here the corporations rule. We are to blame for the god forsaken mess called AOL time warner, you would at least expect a conservative republican to learn better. These copyrights laws arent meant to protect consumers, its ment to arbitrate ownership to other corperations and harm small business in other words the big 4 labels are trying to kill the other record companies, Hollywood is on the same boat cause they are owned by the same people

[XionXXXX]

C-61 will be passed by Janurary 2010, it's true name is ACTA, a global DMCA Copyright Enforcement Trade Agreement being pushed through internationally by the powerful lobbyist groups of the RIAA, MPAA, and CRIA.

Soon Canada and the USA will become the Intellectual Property of the Powerful Recording and Motion Picture Lobby!

[Fayceee]

@RobinDropping Yeah, I like Angus though.