Canada gettin' new copyright law?

[Scott_Arm]

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/12/tech-copyright.html?ref=rss#socialcomments

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/


Not a big fan.

[AlphaWolf]

I can't see the liberal government letting that pass, but who knows. This has clearly always been part of the conservative agenda (a law emulating the US DMCA) it really is just a matter of when if they stay in power.

[Scott_Arm]

I can't see the liberal government letting that pass, but who knows. This has clearly always been part of the conservative agenda (a law emulating the US DMCA) it really is just a matter of when if they stay in power.

Honestly, right now the liberals give the conservatives a free pass on everything. I'd be surprised if they actually voted against this.

Edit:
I'm even more worried about that whole ACTA deal. Do we really need our airport security searching people without warrant for copyright violations? Don't our airport security guards have better things to do than search teenagers' ipods for downloaded music and people's laptops for downloaded movies?

[AlphaWolf]

Honestly, right now the liberals give the conservatives a free pass on everything. I'd be surprised if they actually voted against this.

A second reading won't even be until fall, so there's a lot of time to get people stirred up on it.

Edit:
I'm even more worried about that whole ACTA deal. Do we really need our airport security searching people without warrant for copyright violations? Don't our airport security guards have better things to do than search teenagers' ipods for downloaded music and people's laptops for downloaded movies?

ya its retarded, where are these resources going to come from when they don't have adequate resources to do what they are already tasked with. Next they'll have airport security checking for receipts of every item you bought on your trip to make sure you didn't shoplift them.

[Geo]

$20,000 in damages per incident? That's utterly ridiculous. I think even the US Supreme Court frowns on awards of more than 8x actual damages as excessive.

I'm absolutely a friend of IP owners in general, but they certainly don't make it easy when they ask for ridiculous penalties that are utterly out of scale to the actual damages involved.

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

It's a terrible stich-up. It pretends to give people rights, such as format shifting, but then takes them all away (and more) by making breaking any digital lock highly illegal. So yeah, you can time/format shift anything, unless there's any kind of DRM or prevention mechanism, in which case it's highly illegal.

Once again the media cartels have bought politicians to screw over the public.