30 Days of DRM: 30 Things You Can Do

michaelgeist.ca — "Michael Geist has been listing reasons why Canadians should be alarmed at Canada's proposed new copyright law, which will bring the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Canada's lawbooks. Today, Geist has posted a list of thirty things you can do to fight Bill C-60 in Canada." via boingboing Sep 18, 2006 View in Crawl 4

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arkonnan Sep 19, 2006

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I wonder if the exchange rate applies to buying Canadian politicians.

darkpilot Sep 19, 2006

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<a class="user" href="http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?pub=bill&doc=C-60&parl=38&ses=1&language=E">http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?pub=bill&doc=C-60&parl=38&ses=1&language=E</a>That is a link to the contents of bill C-60. And each party's website: <a class="user" href="http://www.liberal.ca/">http://www.liberal.ca/</a><a class="user" href="http://www.conservative.ca/">http://www.conservative.ca/</a> , <a class="user" href="http://www.ndp.ca/">http://www.ndp.ca/</a> , <a class="user" href="http://www.blocquebecois.org/">http://www.blocquebecois.org/</a> . Also, come the next election VOTE for gods sake.

isny Sep 19, 2006

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C-60 is too short. It's going to take at least a C-90 nowadays to make a copy of this bill.

greywren Sep 19, 2006

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You are correct - as of now there is no reason to believe that the government will reintroduce the old copyright bill (C-60), so there is no bill on the table to speak of.The problem is that, while C-60 was not the ideal copyright bill, it was better than the DMCA and the new governemnt is thought to be more receptive to pressure from the copyright lobby and American lobbyists, and this could result in more drastic legislation. Fortunately this time around there is more attention being paid to the issue (eg. with the formation of the CMCC), and this might force the Conservatives to make concessions of the type Geist has outlined over the past 30 days.