Canada's DMCA: public service announcement


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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