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Documentary Released On Canadian Fight Against DMCA

Posted by Soulskill on from the during-hockey-season?-they-must-really-be-upset dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The ongoing fight against the Canadian DMCA is the focus of a new documentary film called Why Copyright? Produced by Michael Geist and available as a streamed version, OGG download version, or a torrent, the film features Red Hat founder Bob Young, sci-fi writer Karl Schroeder, the owner of Skylink Technologies (which fought the DMCA garage door opener case) and many other voices from across Canada."

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  1. Re:Will it matter? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Or we could just do like Taiwan and pull-out of the treaty.

    What treaty is that? It doesn't sound plausible to me. Taiwan is a bit like Japan - it is very rare to see pirated software here. Also because Taiwan always looks for international recognition of its statehood, it spends lots of time trying to sign treaties since being able to sign treaties is evidence of it is a state as part of the declarative theory of statehood.

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