New posts will begin tomorrow, but it may be helpful to recount the series to date, which illustrates that no amount of spin can disguise the obvious opposition from groups representing millions of Canadians to the Bill C-11 digital lock provisions:
New posts will begin tomorrow, but it may be helpful to recount the series to date, which illustrates that no amount of spin can disguise the obvious opposition from groups representing millions of Canadians to the Bill C-11 digital lock provisions:
clerks
clerks…
if it isn’t in their manual, it doesn’t exist.
(politics replaces religion replaces faith)
Karma will run over their dogma, eventually… as their attempts to make their friends rich get overturned.
the ‘risky-shift’ effect (small group dynamics) leaders will make fools of themselves, not fool the people.
this nonsense will go on till the pension plans are broken.
packrat
Who agrees with it.
It would be nice to see, as a comparison, who actually agrees with the Digital Lock Rules.
Re: Who agrees with it?
“It would be nice to see, as a comparison, who actually agrees with the Digital Lock Rules.”
Such a list would certainly be a much shorter read, and would most likely be composed exclusively of the usual “alphabet soup” of acronyms representing the usual “trade groups”.
I fear it probably doesn’t really matter how long the list of organizations that disagree with C11’s digital lock provisions gets… as long as it is on the conservative’s agenda to pass the bill with those provisions intact, it will pass, because the conservatives hold a majority in parliament, and I think that to them, that’s all that ultimately matters. Meanwhile, enough of the people who voted for them are ignorant enough about this whole concept that it probably wouldn’t even significantly affect their chances of reelection.
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/01/30/fen-hampson-will-the-medium-stop-killing-the-message/
I send iPolitics this comment.
For the article “Will the medium stop killing the message?” he says:
“Allegations by some that the bill will infringe on the rights of private citizens to transfer something they own from one digital medium to another are vastly overstated.
As others have pointed out, the bill would actually afford greater legal protection to consumers by allowing “format shifting†and “time shifting.—
This is not correct. The presence of digital locks (Which ALL BluRay movies and most DVDs are encumbered with, with both encryption and region coding) trump ALL user rights, including format shifting, time shifting, the ability to make back-ups, personal copies of content you purchase, etc. Kindle books are another example of locked content that would become illegal to convert under C-11, even if you legally purchased it. While mostly, but not entirely gone, DRM protected music would become illegal to convert to any other format. The digital lock rules, like those found the the American DMCA, could have unintended consequences in other sectors, such as the auto and mobile device industries. The digital lock rules is the only serious problem most people I know have with C-11.
CBC live chat
C-11 was one of the first issues brought up in the CBC live chat today.
Here’s the Facebook campaign against it:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-Bill-C-11-Fight-Harpers-proposed-Copyright-Act-Defend-Your-Data/238789716190627
Bill C-11 Will Pass… then What to Do?
Take action with your wallet. It’s much more effective than writing letters to your favorite politician:
http://resistcorptyranny.wordpress.com/
All taking action with one’s wallet in the case of protesting C11 after it passes means is voluntarily ostracizing oneself from a highly technological society that is only growing increasingly dependent on digital storage and storage mediums. The only hope that remains, I think, is for the extent of the digital lock provisions to be shown to be either unconstitutional, or otherwise fundamentally incompatible with the concept of copyright… and although definitely not impossible, I don’t think the odds are particularly great on that front either.
@Mark
“All taking action with one’s wallet in the case of protesting C11 after it passes means is voluntarily ostracizing oneself”
I’d rather spend my time and money elsewhere, by choice, than pay the bully.
The real question is
Can we get wikipedia to go black for bill c-11 or do any of the “dissenters” have a web site that has 300 million hits a day?
otherwise they will all be ignored.
blackout day
I really hope that Google.ca will be in on a blackout day also.
Blackout day
The real question is will anyone in Canada even notice or care?
Citizen
You forgot to add MegaUploads to the list of objectors…
Halina McKenzie
MegaUploads was a p2p site that made money from large scale copyright infringement, not a site that provided DRM circumvention tools. What was your point, exactly?