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Old 02-13-2012, 10:24 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe View Post
well I have read the bill and not understanding it totally, but I have thought it over for a week and I just don't care. Not apathetic but I can live without my 50 Gig bandwidth service from Shaw. I have other options. Most of them free.
I'm not sure what you are saying. C-11 is not about bandwidth, it's about copyright.

In particular, C-11 makes it a crime to circumvent "Digital Rights Management" ("digital locks"). Even if what you are doing is otherwise authorized by copyright!

In other words it is a very drastic change to the architecture, giving unbounded control to the copyright holders. In practice, that means unbounded power to the platform, not to authors.

It is really really bad. And it seems unlikely to accomplish its stated goal (to cure piracy). It sure will have a lot of unintended consequences (or at least undeclared consequences).

Consequence one: it creates a world in which platform owners can create monopolies.

During the consultation period of the white paper that started out this round of copyright "modernization" (perhaps a decade ago), I proposed that if DRM prevented the owner of a copy from doing things authorized by copyright law, the work should lose copyright protection. After all, copyright is a deal; if one side changes the deal, the other should not be bound by it.
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