The reality of Bill C32
Posted by Lamespotting on 25 Jun 2010 at 11:32 am | Tagged as: Education, tech
Much has been said about Canada’s proposed bill C-32, except for one thing:
The digital lock provisions aren’t for stopping or slowing piracy, they are to force consumers to pay multiple times for the same thing.
They don’t want you to be able to rip a CD you already own onto an MP3 player. They want you pay again for the digital version.
Your kid dropped your MP3 player into the toilet? Too bad those digital files are now locked to your drowned player, you’ll have to pay for those songs again.
Today’s copyright law gives us the right to do many things. Bill C-32 is intended to remove those rights and force us to pay more money. Please contact your nearest non-Conservative MP and tell them they should not support the digital lock provisions of bill C-32.
Any improved rights for users (fair dealing) in C32 are void in the presence of a digital lock.
Example: exemptions to circumvent for disability do not apply if circumvention disables the digital lock for other uses (ie no exemption at all) There’s no special lock for the blind, it’s just one lock, once it’s broken for one purpose it’s broken for all.
The Canadian government is throwing Canadian interests under the bus for US businesses. I guess CSIS was right our politicians are under foreign influence.