Canada is trying to get in a version of the DMCA, and it's meeting huge public resistance.
Ours if passed as is, would be even stricter and even more ridiculous. They want to make it so that any device that could be used for copying a digital item ilegal. Obviously they haven't realized that makes computers ilegal.
Dr. Michael Geist, a proffessor of Law at the University of Ottawa, an advisor for the BBC, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citezen in regards to copyright issues, and creator/consulting editor of the BNA Internet Law News, created this video about Canadian Piracy, and it shows a lot of U.S. Statistics in it as well.
Putting Canadian "Piracy" in Perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TloG6qL3gg
What's really interesting, is how this shows that the Candian Recording Industry Association, (CRIA,) is claiming that Canadian record sales are down. This fails to show that hundreds of Canadian Recording Artists have left the CRIA to form the Candian Music Creator's Coalition.
http://www.musiccreators.ca/
The CEO of Universal Music Group, has this nice quote:
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Originally Posted by Doug Morris via TechDirt
"There's no one in the record company that's a technologist," Morris explains. "That's a misconception writers make all the time, that the record industry missed this. They didn't. They just didn't know what to do. It's like if you were suddenly asked to operate on your dog to remove his kidney. What would you do?"
Personally, I would hire a vet. But to Morris, even that wasn't an option. "We didn't know who to hire," he says, becoming more agitated. "I wouldn't be able to recognize a good technology person -- anyone with a good bull**** story would have gotten past me." Morris' almost willful cluelessness is telling. "He wasn't prepared for a business that was going to be so totally disrupted by technology," says a longtime industry insider who has worked with Morris. "He just doesn't have that kind of mind."
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Taken from this article
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071127/011720.shtml
Yeah.... Not to sure what to say to wrap up after that doozie.