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Canadian Government Subsidizes DRM

Posted by timothy on from the the-smell-of-a-free-market-burning dept.

MikeOttawa writes "According to the Ministry of Canadian Heritage [Government of Canada] website, the Canadian Government has 'announced a total of $2,746,530 in funding for three organizations to develop online copyright management and licensing systems.' Three companies are mentioned in the press release, Access Copyright, COPIBEC and RightsMarket Inc. Each are receiving close to $1,000,000 CDN to 'build invaluable databases that will facilitate the management of copyrights, improve copyright compliance, increase royalties to Canadian content creators, and promote the use of Canadian content throughout the world.' Does that scare everyone else as much as me. It makes me wonder why the Canadian Government is also increasing the subsidy [Slashdot.org] paid to content creators from the sale of digital media like CDs ..."

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  1. Hmm. I saw this in a movie once. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Canada should perhaps worry about becoming the 51st state instead of some BS laws that will largely be ignored.

    Interesting how the country that looks to be close to decriminalizing/legalizing weed is becoming the bitch of copyright nazis.

  2. How much money? by chriso11 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With $2.7 Million, all a government program can do is print business cards...

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    No, I don't trust in god. He'll have to pay up front, like everybody else.
  3. Canadian rights by peripatetic_bum · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What I seem to not understand is how Canada which always seemed to a good bastion of personal liberty has suddenly gone willing servant of DRM?

    Any ideas?
    I mean that explain why this DRM fiasco is taking so much root in a pretty liberal country?

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    Sigs are dangerous coy things

  4. Re:There's nothing to be scared OF! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    The money is not to develop some evil "let's charge more than before and scare people to death scheme," it's to create a system so people can pay only for the licenses they need, and so they can do it as efficiently as possible.

    These are the same thing--the second part is the Newspeak version.

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