Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

My readers know that Bill C-61 is a crock, but what is something you can tell people so they’ll understand how Conservative Jim Prentice is selling out their liberty to litigious copyright businesses, and lawyers?

First you might need to know that Canada agreed to ratify the WIPO copyright agreements made pretty much worldwide by developed countries. That’s the official reason for introducing these amendments to the Copyright Act.

Jesse from CBC asked the Minister, “All the ‘freedoms’ your law guarantees us can be overridden by DRM, right?”
When defending that part of the new amendments, what does Jim say?
“The market will take care of it.”

Well Mr. Minister. What in the blazes do we need a law for if the market will decide? I have news for you Jim: The market decided. Remember Napster? (No, of course you don’t.) The Napster generation decided that if record labels were going to cling to lawsuits and CDs, and Digital Restrictions Management (digital locks) then we’d take our money elsewhere.

The whole reason for the bill was supposed to be because the market was deciding, and other WIPO countries like the USA were getting upset at the comparable liberty that Canadians had. The only thing Prentice wants the market to decide (according to his bill), is how often big-business will threaten you with lawsuits and false accusations even when you’ve done nothing illegal.