Lobbyists trying to gut anti-spyware laws in Bill C27

[Walter Dnes]

  Michael Geist in http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4464/125/
writes about out outrageous amendmants submitted by various MPs to water
down anti-spyware laws.  They want to create a major loophole, that would
allow most software to *SURREPTITIOUSLY* install DRM and/or spy on end
users, e.g. Sony rootkits.  The loophole is that spying must be "the
primary purpose" of a program to be illegal.  So a program that plays a
proprietary media format could be claimed to have a "primary purpose" of
playing the media, and spyware, rootkits, etc was "only secondary".
Write your MP.

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