Jim Prentice Spins The Canadian DMCA

Jim Prentice appeared on the Mike Duffy show on June 12, 2008 to spin the Canadian DMCA as a piece of "made in Canada" legislation which will benefit consumers and creators alike. This is clearly not the case. This Bill was "born in the USA" and serves only to benefit US corporate interests at the expense of Canadian consumer rights.

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News & Politics

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• dmca
• prentice
• duffy
• copyright
• legislation

[lpdark32]

Canada shouldn't try to become USA, stupid bill.

[drputo]

"We're going to fix that"

No you globalist puppet, we are going to fix you.

[realistic28]

The fines and jail term for copyright infringement is more then shoplifting. Hell I would rather shoplift music now then download. theft under 100 is a pat on the head with time served in court and probation for one year and a fine of $250.00, nah I think i would just do the CD jewel theft scheme, pop the back off and swap out the CD, copy it and then return it and get my money back....lol

[connollyjh]

Listen. I live in America. We do what the fuck we want. There's no threat to you. We have the strictest copywright laws in the world, but nothing stops us from downloading. No matter how strong the laws become, consumers create ways to bypass them, and we do so on such a mass scale that the enforcement of these laws becomes ridiculously unrealistic. I am very impressed, though, that this is a political issue in Canada. Here in America we're currently overwhelmed by far, far more inhumane policy.

[YumeWire]

Fair????

[treyd1]

It seems like even if the provisions themselves are not flawed, the concept of creating a blanket rule and then filling it with exemptions limits innovation because new ways to share media will always be illegal.

[sv4animal]

Liar. Plain and simple. Unbelievable... "Significant commercial violations?" "$4000 piece of complicated software to break a lock?" He's not a very good industry minister, but he's great at spinning the information in front of people who don't know any better.

[hitman247m]

This is disgusting. How do these bastards sleep at night? Oh, wait, that's right, they're quite tired after sodomizing the Canadian consumers for so long...

[z257425]

Made in Canada Bill?

The Conservatives think Canadians are as dumb as FOXNEWS viewers............

[defunctlife]

You are so full of shit prentice.