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Originally Posted by rkomar
Here in Canada, the current government tabled a bill about a year ago that would have clarified this situation. The bill would have made it legal to make back-ups for fair use purposes, and this was trumpeted by the government in the media. However, the same bill would have also made the breaking of _any_ DRM illegal, including the fair use cases. That part of the bill wasn't trumpeted to the media  . There was some grassroots opposition to the bill, and it was removed from the table, for now. |
For a small country, we sure do have huge confusion regarding this. Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, gave
a very good explanation of where the digital locks controversy stands at the moment just last week.