So says the editorial page at the Victoria Times-Colonist.
Update: The Nanaimo Daily News adds that the bill is "not enforceable, impractical, and inappropriate."
Made-in-America Copyright Law
Tags: c-61 / copyright / Copyright Canada / Copyright Microsite - Mainstream Media Coverage / dmca / prentice / victoria times-colonist
4 Comments
Recent Posts
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 273: Rebroadcast of the Globe and Mail’s The Decibel on Canada’s First Steps Towards a Social Media Ban 
Midnight Madness: The Government Rushes Lawful Access Bill Through the House Without Debate or a Recorded Vote 
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Bill C-36 Modernizes Canada’s Privacy Law, Then Delays It to 2030 
Gary Anandasangaree’s Vic Toews Moment Shows the Government Has Lost Its Way on Lawful Access 
Government Moves to Shut Down Lawful Access Hearing In Order To Fast Track Passing the Bill This Week
Ah, it mentions the whole downloading = shoplifting = lost sale argument again. Ottawa has the right to criminalize half the country? Whatever.
Thank You
I shared the article with Minister Prentice and my MP.
Who is the editor?
Good read, thanks for the link. Have referenced this on my site:
[ link ]
Skewing the Stats
“This hardline approach was likely meant to appease the entertainment industry, which has suffered from the development in technology that allows peer-to-peer file sharing.
It’s understandable that singers, actors and their production companies would want to recoup their losses.”
The first thing they might want to do in this regard is ALLOW Canadian citizens to purchase music online instead of leaving P2P as our only option! After all, try getting a major label’s music from Nettwerk, eMusic, or Amazon.com if you run Linux or live in Canada (Amazon.com is particularly telling as the labels will not allow them to sell MP3 downloads to Canadians).
My best guess for the Amazon stunt is to skew the stats on Canadian digital music sales which we’ve been told are dismal without a DMCA-like law here 8-|