"Canadian DMCA To Be Introduced This Spring"?

Jason Spiro jasonspiro4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Apr 18 14:10:23 UTC 2007


On 4/16/07, Meng Cheah <meng-D1t3LT1mScs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
...
> "The Hill Times <http://www.thehilltimes.ca/> reports this week (issue
> still not online) that the Conservative government will introduce
> copyright reform legislation this spring provided that there is no
> election.  The paper points to two main changes from the Liberals Bill
> C-60 - tougher anti-circumvention legislation (ie. DMCA-style laws that
> ban devices that can be used to circumvent as well as provisions that
> block all circumvention subject to the odd exception) and an educational
> exception that will provide for free access to web-based materials.
>
> If this report is true, the bill will be remarkable in its ability
> generate more opposition than any prior copyright bill in Canadian
> history.  From a policy perspective, it is a disaster - dangerous and
> unnecessary laws to support DRM and an educational exception that does
> little to address the needs of the education community while encouraging
> even greater use of DRM." ...

So it sounds like this will be like the Bill C-60 that never got to
second reading when the Paul Martin government fell[1], but worse.
That's scary -- even Bill C-60 was a worrisome piece of legislation.

Why do governments like to pass such unnecessary laws?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_C-60
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