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- alapoet, on 06/12/2008, -0/+5I'm not so sure about this law.
What if a consumer, for instance, legally buys a disc's worth of songs from, say, iTunes, then burns a CD of the songs, then rips those songs back to a hard drive?
It could be argued that would comprise "bypassing the digital locks," since the files would no longer be encrypted if you ripped them as MP3s rather than iTunes ACC files. But in my opinion no crime has occurred. - bstory, on 06/12/2008, -1/+5While it is tough thing to control I think that the government has done a slightly better job than expected. It will be pretty hard to enforce on an individual level but I think that by passing the digital locks certainly goes towards intent and should receive a stiffer penalty. However, $20,000.00 fine per violation seems a little stiff seeing as people who break into other people's homes do not receive fines of $20,000.00 and in my opinion that violation seems to be worse than hacking a digital lock. Still something had to be done and now that it has been done let the legal battles begin.
- Qong, on 06/13/2008, -0/+3That's a great point about someone breaking into your house not receiving a fine like that.
I guess the main difference is that people who have their homes broken into don't have lobbyists and millions of dollars at their disposal... - lucy22, on 06/12/2008, -1/+4here are further details of what will be allowed:http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/crp-prda.nsf/en/h_rp ...
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