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SOPA-style Amendments Dropped From C-11; DRM Provisions Not
New submitter Ashenkase writes "Michal Geist reviews what stayed and what was rejected by the Bill C-11 Committee Review. Looks like SOPA-style amendments are dropped except Digital Locks. There is still a chance for Canadians to have their voices heard before third reading: 'The Bill C-11 legislative committee concluded its clause-by-clause review yesterday as eight government amendments were added to the bill and all opposition amendments were defeated. The amendments included an expanded enabler provision and some modest tinkering to other elements of the bill. There are still several steps needed before the bill passes including third reading at the House of Commons, Senate review, and ultimately royal assent, but Canadian copyright reform is well on its way to completion before the summer starts. In the days leading up to the clause-by-clause review, many focused on three key issues: no SOPA-style amendments such as website blocking or warrantless disclosure of information, maintaining the fair dealing balance found in the bill, and amending the digital lock provisions. By that standard, the changes could have been a lot worse. The government expanded the enabler provision, though not as broadly as CIMA requested. Virtually all other copyright lobby demands — website blocking, notice-and-takedown, iPod tax, copyright term extension, disclosure of subscriber information — were rejected. Moreover, the provisions supported by consumer and education groups including user generated content protection, time shifting, format shifting, backup copies, Internet provider liability, and statutory damages reform were left untouched. This represents a major victory for the many Canadians and groups such as Open Media that spoke out on these issues.'"
Our Dear Leader will just try again in a few months. He won't stop until his corporate buddies get everything they want.
Imagine if a stand-alone DRM supporting law was created in a place, there would be uproar.
Don't be happy until this crap is completely dead.
We can make our voices heard, but nobody is listening.
"a new limitation on disclosure of security flaws that requires advance notice to the copyright owner unless it is in the public interest to have it disclosed without such notice"
This amendment was added and passed.
THINK how vague it is and how that affects you.
as well as many others.
AS usual when you put a lawyer in charge of your movement he eventually bends over and just goes oh well .....
parts of democracy aren't totally useless! As for DRM, as they have been in the past, the free markets will defeat them. Everyone knows that DRM just makes products worse and doesn't affect pirates or theft at all.
Never say never. Ah!! I did it again!
Whatever you may think of him, we're four years away from a federal election and Harper's Conservatives control parliament the C-11 committee. If Stephen Harper want to give his "corporate buddies" "everything they want," he wouldn't need to "try again in a few months." The amendments would have been approved, and the bill would pass the house of commons. In fact, C-11 is a reintroduction of a bill that died on the order paper last parliament, so they wouldn't have even needed to put them in as amendments: "everything they want" would have been introduced with the rest of the bill at second reading. Either way, any public outcry would be drowned out in a few weeks by the forthcoming budget debate.
Don't be a moron. It's not an endearing quality.
Dear Anonymous Coward,
Thank you for your recent correspondence regarding the Lawful Access tools in our proposed legislation. I am always happy to respond to the questions and concerns of my constituents.
Our Government is strongly committed to ensuring that Canadians’ rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are respected.
The new lawful access tools proposed in our legislation will not derogate from existing safeguards and privacy protections. The need to respect a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy, as protected under the Charter, always guides law reform. Such authority will continue to be exercised bearing in mind privacy rights under other legislation, such as the Privacy Act and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
Police will still be required to obtain judicial authorizations in order to obtain information under our legislation and law enforcement agencies will not be able to intercept private communications or obtain transmission data without being authorized to do so by law. Let me be very clear: the police will not be able to read emails or view web activity unless they obtain a warrant issued by a judge.
While technology has advanced significantly over the past four decades, the legal frameworks and investigative tools available to the police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) have not kept pace with this evolution. This proposed legislation would provide law enforcement and CSIS with the modern investigative tools they need to help fight crime and thwart national security threats.
The investigative tools created in this legislation preserve existing safeguards, such as requirements for warrants, court authorizations or other lawful authority to target specified communications. They are time-limited, and nothing put forward in the proposed legislation would reduce the existing safeguards.
Thank you again for taking the time to write regarding this issue. If you have any further questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact my office.
Yours sincerely,
Hon. Gary Goodyear, P.C., M.P.
Cambridge-North Dumfries
Just to clarify, as much as I hate the DRM provisions, and as stupid as they're being about them, the SOPA-style provisions were never in the bill in the first place. The copyright lobbyists wanted them put in, but they were denied in these hearings.
I like to think of online DRM as something akin to a college -- you pay for lessons until you learn something.
It's still stupid that even though I can do X because of "fair dealing", it's illegal to do X if I have to break "digital locks" in order to do it. This is the same lunacy that made the DMCA in the US so ridiculous. When is it going to sink in that none of the format-shifting or other provisions that are legal in the proposed bill make any sense unless you can legally *exercise* those rights regardless of what protections the copyright holder places on the material? It's like saying "Yes, you can legally drive your car on the road, but no you can't leave the driveway because we've installed a concrete barrier."
What's the programming language C++ got to do with SOPA?
But that's the evil brilliance of bill. That one little digital lock provision undermines everything else in the bill like a puppy-killing unicorn. Removing a "digital lock" (AKA DRM) is illegal EVEN IF you are doing it to create something that is otherwise legal under the other parts of the bill like time-shifting, format-shifting and yes even the noncommercial Star Wars re-edit (it's pretty hard to re-edit something without source material, and the Star Wars prequels have never been released in a non-DRM format).
Support Right To Repair Legislation.
One of the Conservative ammendments was to kill the interoperability exemption in the bill.
Goodbye third party printer ink.
Goodbye aftermarket automotive electronics.
Goodbye third party auto mechanics (should the car companies add a trivial TPM layer on the electronic diagnostics).
Goodbye jailbreaking.
Etc, for anything else involving electronics where a corporation wants to not just sell you a product, but wants the power to control everything you can do with it afterwards.
Forced vulnerability disclosure added to bill.
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So is the rrecordable media levy still in place? They can't have their cake and eat it too. It pisses me off that I have to pay $20 extra for a media device, on the presumption that I am and will be a pirate. Take an AppleTV for example, $99 in the US but $120 in Canada thanks to the "ipod tax". What's bizarre is that an AppleTV has no storage capacity other than the limited RAM required for data buffering when streaming media. So why is there an "ipod tax" on this device? It's not capable of ripping nor storing illegal copies, nor do I use it to view illegal copies. And how does that $20 get distributed and to whom, if I am not even pirating anything? Oh, but we're presumed to all be guilty by default.