CRIA, MPAA Demand Expanded DMCA For Canada 224
An anonymous reader writes "The Canadian Recording Industry Association and the MPAA's Canadian
subsidiary are demanding
that Canada adopt copyright laws that go beyond even the DMCA. The
groups demand anti-circumvention law, three strikes and you're out
legislation, and increased secondary liability for websites. The
demands come as part of the national copyright
consultation in which hundreds of Canadians have spoken out against such
reforms."
Re:Will Canadian Pols Roll Over (Score:5, Informative)
So, um... (Score:1, Informative)
As long as I can retrieve data over a network, piracy will always be possible.
Of course (Score:4, Informative)
These surveys which I refer to are the ones which they admitted they extrapolated from the American data, without actually considering Canada at all... [michaelgeist.ca]
So it makes total sense to demand stricter laws.
Re:Seriously.. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Will Canadian Pols Roll Over (Score:2, Informative)
Uh, the Senate? Stop legislation in Canada? I don't think so. I can recall only a single time in the past 30 years when they DELAYED some legislation briefly (a month or two).
And I hope they can stop this legislation, because right after it, the media companies will immediately go to Congress and demand changes in copyright law to match or exceed that in Canada, "just to give US companies equal protection".
Re:As a Canadian let me say... (Score:3, Informative)
Apparently their misinformation campaign is working just as well as their fear campaign. You do realize that nobody has settled or gone to court because of downloading, right?
Re:Will Canadian Pols Roll Over (Score:3, Informative)
Wait--that was a good thing. (Score:5, Informative)
Do you remember the private copying levy that the Liberals introduced back in 1997? Where we have to pay extra money on all blank media we buy here to compensate the poor media companies and the losses they incur?
Actually, this was a godsend in disguise, because it essentially created a giant loophole for Bittorrent operators in Canada. The CRIA hasn't been nearly as successful as their American counterpart because infringing citizens can happily point to the levy and say, "You're already getting your cut, so STFU."
Re:Will Canadian Pols Roll Over (Score:3, Informative)
I'd say Pirate Party.... hopefully you'll get one soon. In the last few days, the UK Pirate Party [pirateparty.org.uk] has registered as an official party in the UK!
Re:"US strong-armed Canada on DMCA" (Score:3, Informative)
Silly Americans.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2178rank.html [cia.gov]
And we have yet to touch the arctic.