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Originally Posted by vaughnmr
This is going to end up like the situation with pot smoking. You get pulled over, and the officer asked you if he can search your car for "weapons". In the process, he finds your Kindle on the console, in plain open sight, and since you've already given up all your rights after allowing the search, he checks it out and finds ebooks with DRM removed (he thinks), one of the new IP laws they have to enforce. You are now under arrest. Let's see, recently the movies guys are filing lawsuits for $150,000 per person for copying a movie, so a book is worth what, $100,000? So now you've got to make a $10,000 bail. Of course, in our society, we presume anyone is innocent until proved guilty, right? And of course, we have some people, actually members of this forum, that will try to say that the civil act of IP violation is a criminal act, so we can expect some jail time also, right? I mean now we are (I've been hearing this lately) of jailing or even sentencing someone to what, death? for IP violations?
This stuff is going too far. Better look out... history can repeat itself.
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Oh give me a break! This is not a banana republic (or state) that we have here, this is Canada. Even if this bill does pass, I will continue to only buy DRM infested products where I can remove the DRM. Nothing will change.
The government's interest is not with individuals in possession (of either pot or IP) but with those making it available. I have no (NONE) fear of the police breaking my door down looking for broken DRM. I am simply of no interest (or is any other individual) to the authorities.
The the law against DRM circumvention is a bad law and should not be passed for the simple reason that laws that cannot be enforced subvert respect for the law in general.
Or maybe I just have insufficient paranoia.
Cheers