Canada’s coming DMCA will be the worst copyright yet
Looks like Canadians will be gearing up for another round of copyright stupidity. In Canada I think we’ve always viewed ourselves as progressive folks when compared to the US. Now they want to pass a bill that will not only match the stupidity that is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but actually exceed it by not allowing copyright circumvention of any kind for any device. So if you want to copy tracks from a CD you own into iTunes for use on your iPod, under this new legislation you would be a criminal. How is this right? This whole bill is aimed at appeasing the interests of the RIAA, MPAA and the big media conglomerates they represent. This whole bill displays a complete lack of understanding of digital distribution in the internet age. If they were smart they would actually consult some experts in the field that actually know something about copyright instead of towing the copyright lobby line.

I consider myself a Conservative supporter in this country and typically am not a person that believes in political action. But this really irks me to the point I’m actually going to contact my MP about the matter. I think it would be pretty much political suicide to push this forward and I plan to make my stance on this known and suggest you do too if you feel strongly about this issue. You can find the contact info for your local MP here, as well as you can email Conservative Jim Prentice at Prentice.J@parl.gc.ca about this matter. I don’t like the idea of Canada becoming a backwater country because of draconian copyright laws. We already pay levies on media that we buy and on media devices like iPods or any other type of media player whether you are a copyright infringer or someone who uses CDs and DVDs to back up their own data and downloads all their music through iTunes. Canada prides itself on our progressiveness and this would be about 5 steps backwards for our society.