Yeah, the new copyright law (http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1447/273/) would remove the concept of fair use entirely, which is ridiculous. I should be able to do whatever I want, within reason, with the media I buy. The value of the content I'm buying is in the message, not the medium. If I buy a CD with songs on it, it's the songs I'm after, and I should be able to listen to them however I want. Particularly with the media levees we're paying.
Even if the law passes, it doesn't look like it's really going to be enforced, though. As it is, the RCMP has declared (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ledevoir.com%2F2007%2F11%2F08%2F163562.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8) that they're not going after personal filesharers, because it isn't worth their time. "It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it." I can only imagine that this will be doubly so once even more people are considered criminals.
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Date: 2007-12-07 06:02 pm (UTC)Even if the law passes, it doesn't look like it's really going to be enforced, though. As it is, the RCMP has declared (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ledevoir.com%2F2007%2F11%2F08%2F163562.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8) that they're not going after personal filesharers, because it isn't worth their time. "It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it." I can only imagine that this will be doubly so once even more people are considered criminals.