Thought Patterns
by Emanuel
June 14, 2008 at 12:29
filed under rant
I wrote about this over a week ago but it has since hit the front page of all of Canada’s major newspapers: the Conservatives’ new copyright bill is threatening to make illegal many everyday activities that we’ve all be used to doing since our youth.
You want to mix a new playlist on your iPod from your old CD collection to bring to a party? If one of those CDs is copy-protected, which, let’s be honest here, isn’t really a copy-protection measure but simply a copy-delaying procedure and a more time-consuming process of ripping the CD to your digital music listening device, you could be fined for copyright infringement. Same goes for transferring one of your DVDs onto your iPod. I won’t get into all the details here but I will refer you to a good source on the subject.
Many have described this bill as Canada’s abdication to US Music and Entertainment Industry pressures to conform to the United States’ Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Here’s a short excerpt I found in one of Industry Canada’s reports on the subject, more specifically with regards to how ISP are/would be involved in the implementation of such a bill, that sure reads that way:
The vast majority of copyright infringement notices are sent either by US studios (representing movies, music, and television content) or software publishers, or by agents operating on their behalf. Less than 2% of notices could be attributed to Canadian copyright holders.
Furthermore, as often is the case in these situations, we ask ourselves: what can I do? Well, it’s your lucky day as here are 30 things you can do to make your voice heard. What will you do?
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Louis
This is scary.