Canadian Government Subsidizes DRM

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 ..."