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Canada's Proposed DMCA-Style Law Draws Fire
litui writes "Michael Geist assesses the problems with new copyright legislation presented today. In short, it looks like unless it's heavily contested, Canadians are in for a worse piece of law than the DMCA." CBC News' story quotes one critic, Scott Brison, who warns that enforcing the anti-circumvention clauses of this legislation would turn Canada into a police state — which, considering the pervasive eavesdropping it would take to make sure that people aren't enjoying their rights to fair use (or "fair dealing") of hardware or media, seems like a fair prediction.
Lose dude, not loose.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Hasn't this happened before? I thought the idea in Canada was that they propose a DMCA-like law, but even worse, simply so that it gets tossed and nothing even like it can be proposed anymore. Then later, when some copyright-nazi comes around complaining, they just point to the history books and say, "Hey, see! What are you complaining aboot? We tried to make such a law before but no one would pass it, eh."
No, in order to block future DMCA-like laws, they'd need to pass something. They did it with the animal cruelty laws, two versions were proposed, and the weaker one got fast-tracked to "block" the more restrictive one.And the Conservatives aren't known for putting out bills designed to outrage you so they can replace it with a softer one later. If they introduced it, it's because they intend to pass it.
Magic doesn't work in my presence. My power of disbelief is too strong.
it would apparently also be illegal to turn off autorun.exe
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