This is actually really bad, this group is trying to push levies while the CRIA, RIAA along with the American government is currently pushing to get a bill passed that would be like DMCA on steroids. The new law was just recently featured in the free press. Among a few things they were looking at making it illegal to circumvent copyright protection, make file sharing illegal, television recordings illegal among a few other rules. The government no longer cares about its people so we can only hope that it will be deemed illegal to have this bill passed. It also seems as tho the Liberals and Conservatives are both in favor of this bill being passed (I am uncertain of the views of other parties). So don't think just because we have a minority government this law has no hope. Our only hope is a new government thats not scared to stand up to corporations and realize that if a current market strategy is not working big corporations should not be able to create laws in order to make them work.
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This is actually really bad, this group is trying to push levies while the CRIA, RIAA along with the American government is currently pushing to get a bill passed that would be like DMCA on steroids. The new law was just recently featured in the free press. Among a few things they were looking at making it illegal to circumvent copyright protection, make file sharing illegal, television recordings illegal among a few other rules. The government no longer cares about its people so we can only hope that it will be deemed illegal to have this bill passed. It also seems as tho the Liberals and Conservatives are both in favor of this bill being passed (I am uncertain of the views of other parties). So don't think just because we have a minority government this law has no hope. Our only hope is a new government thats not scared to stand up to corporations and realize that if a current market strategy is not working big corporations should not be able to create laws in order to make them work.