Bad News From Canada On NetTV And Media Levies

twilight30 writes "Canadian regulators ruled Friday that it is illegal to put broadcast TV signals onto the Internet without permission, dashing the hopes of entrepreneurs hoping to create new Net TV businesses. An alternate link to the original at CNet is here." And Dr Caleb writes "In response to this Slashdot story I emailed my Member of Parlament. He responded to me today to say that "Despite strong opposition by the Canadian Alliance to these and other aspects of the bill, the Minister of Canadian Heritage won the day and Bill C-32 Copyright Legislation is now law." And further to say "The law assumes guilt that everyone who buys a blank tape or CD is pirating music - but anyone who uses CDs for data storage, for instance, knows that's not true!" Distressing that the bill has passed, but refreshing that my MP 'gets it'!"

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Oh, yes, CA defender of Freedom HAHAHHAHAH

[SubtleNuance]

For those who dont know, the Canadian Alliance is an ultra-rigthist party, known to have realitions w/ race-hate groups. Its sad that they have the support they do, but allot of CA supporters arnt aware of the depths of perversion in the CA ranks.

as for the CA being sympathetic to the loss of Canadians' freedom, Im quite sure that this CA weasel, like the rest, just restlessly wriggle against the Librals... anything to climb back a few extra % of support.

dont be fooled, the CA would make Corporations your masters in a heartbeat - after all, property is king for a plutocrat.

Simple? Simple? A bunch of sheep!

[Mashiki]

The Priminister is elected by the number of seats held by each party. It boils down that canada is a socialist country with a dictatorship style goverment.

Fall in line or loose your seat come to mind. We know what's best for the canadian public, not you.
We are above and beyond the law.
CISIS is your friend, don't cross the line after all they are above and beyond the law.
That's a simple bit.

Too much concentration of power at the top here, and the C32 bill with the massive increases in levies shows this all too well. A levy of $21/GB for MP3 players with HDD's?

I think I'll start demanding my levy monies back when I buy CDR's now. Otherwise I'll follow the logic of another poster, since I'm paying a levy I have paid to copy already.