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Canadian Gov't Asks Public About New Copyright Law

Posted by timothy on from the hunched-on-the-border-stealing-our-wifi dept.

Mike Lawrie writes "The so-called Canadian DMCA has had a long history. Historically, proposed legislation has favoured the views of CRIA, the Canadian arm of the RIAA almost completely. However, this time around the government is consulting the public before drafting the bill. They have launched a (Linux-based!) website designed to provide a public forum for discussion. Now is the time to speak up."

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  1. No surprises there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They're not even a real country anyway.

    1. Re:No surprises there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      It seems like everything's gone wrong since Canada came along.

  2. To bad mikey geist bans people for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    calling a nazi law the same people asking about copyright go and get themselves for warrant less arrests and searches and seizures.

    Seems mister geist and his lil crew a people don't get it that privacy is core to democracy and if your are going the fascist way then SAY SO.
    BEING a chicken shit about it gets him less and less credibility, like all these invites to govt meetings when he is all yap and no action.

    And a nice way to go would have been the pirate party of Canada , but they went and got a leader whose buddies with Canada's media people. So it too feels like a sham.
    Betrayed we are on all fronts and the only thing to do is to NOT say anyhting let em have the worst law possible and let the lawsuits begin.
    Do not vote ever and when it gets to below 50% then they do not have the right to govern.