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Just When I Thought I Was Plugged In…

// January 11th, 2008 // Brain Dump

If you are in Canada, read this post. If you’re not – the choice is yours because it could impact you eventually..

“In December 2007, it became apparent that the Canadian government was about to introduce new copyright legislation that would have been a complete sell-out to U.S. government and lobbyist demands. The new Canadian legislation was to have mirrored the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act with strong anti-circumvention legislation that goes far beyond what is needed to comply with the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Internet treaties. Moreover, it was not going to address the issues that concern millions of Canadians. For example, the Conservatives’ promise to eliminate the private copying levy was to be abandoned. There was no flexible fair dealing. No parody exception. No time shifting exception. No device shifting exception. No expanded backup provision. Nothing that focuses on the concerns of ordinary Canadians.

Instead, the government was about to choose locks over learning, property over privacy, enforcement over education, (law)suits over security, lobbyists over librarians, and U.S. policy over a “Canadian-made” solution.”

Ok, so there is the background taken directly from the Facebook group page.

Now this, is an interview that George Stroumboulopoulos conducted with Michael Geist on his show “The Hour” about this whole issue:

As a lover of my iPod and all which it contains, and as a Canadian, I think I’m going to have to dig into this a bit more and keep my eye on it. It’s a little scary when things like this are going on and you find out a month later…

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