Canada's DMCA: public service announcement - Boing Boing

Canada's DMCA: public service announcement

Posted by Cory Doctorow, June 13, 2008 2:10 PM | permalink

The Open Source Cinema folks have cut together this PSA about Canada's new copyright bill, C-61, which imports the worst elements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, turning millions of Canadians into presumptive criminals who will be forever at risk of losing their property, privacy and dignity for the "crimes" of posting a clip to YouTube, breaking the DRM on a CD, or using a region-free DVD player. Link (Thanks, Brett!)

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#1 posted by pauldrye , June 13, 2008 4:06 PM

"Amend" has one "M" in it, big guys.

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#2 posted by Poobot , June 14, 2008 11:38 AM

I love the smell of fascism in the morning

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#3 posted by BlazeEagle , June 15, 2008 9:22 PM

Fascism is ever so slowly taking over the world, one country at a time.

Goverments are using fear to control people.

Artists deserve their creations protected, but citizens deserve rights too.

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