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Canadian Politicians Reverse Course On DMCA
An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist reports that the two Canadian Ministers responsible for copyright seem to have reversed course on copyright and now appear to oppose a Canadian DMCA. At a government event this week, Industry Minister Tony Clement spoke of how things have changed and of the need for consultation, while Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore emphasized the great potential of the Internet and how older politicians often don't get it."
Well its about time the Conservatives got on the right side of this. The Liberals are whores to the American media companies. The Conservatives SHOULD have been rational about this but they got in bed with the same people who will TURN ON THEM EVERY ELECTION. The Media companies are ultimately Liberal stooges. Still, it remains to be seen if this is simply lip service or if this is something else.
DMCA prevents copyrighted material being ripped off by other leeches. Imagine spending years writing hundreds of web pages and then working to make your website a success -- ad money is rolling in. Then some leech, tempted by your profits, spends less than one week, using the curl tool to download your site and recreate it. The profits of the original site start to rapidly dwindle and go towards the leeches, and more leeches join the fray.
DMCA can be used to quickly shut down this leech sites. After a while, few people will be interested in investing years of their lives to supporting leeches or the indifferent consumers who don't care about anyone except getting their product for free or cheap.