Canada's new laws against piracy and much more!

[Robert]

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/12/canad...mca-is-wor.html

 

Canadian DMCA is worse than the American one

 

The digital lock provisions are worse than the DMCA. Yes - worse. The law creates a blanket prohibition on circumvention with very limited exceptions and creates a ban against distributing the tools that can be used to circumvent. While Prentice could have adopted a more balanced approach (as New Zealand and Canada's Bill C-60 did), the effect of these provisions will be to make Canadians infringers for a host of activities that are common today including watching out-of-region-coded DVDs, copying and pasting materials from a DRM'd book, or even unlocking a cellphone. The liability for picking the digital lock is up to $20,000 per infringement.

 

You can convert a WAV to a MP3, but using a tool to do it is illegal.

One wonders what goes on in the minds of politicians...

[ken_cinder]

Nothing more than appeasement to the US government Robert, we have MANY laws here in Canada that have never once been enforced.

This one will be no different, if it is.....it will be used in cases of mass infringement, such as the people who sell pirated movies (I know of several that sell hundreds of movies a week for like $5-$7 a pop).