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Originally Posted by Fotoman
I don't doubt for a minute that Apple, Microsoft, Sony and all the motion picture and music publishers and distributors are lobbying like crazy to get this passed.
But you're still going to have to explain to me how this ties in to the Canadian iBooks store delay. Especially since Apple just last week finally got around to hiring a manager for the Canadian store: Chris Jackson Named Manager of iBooks-Canada. I would have thought that job would have been filled a couple of months ago, not 3 weeks after the device went for sale here.
Are Canadians more notorious digital pirates than citizens of other countries? I've never seen any statistics that would support that. And with all due respect to my fellow ebook consumers here, we are a tiny minority compared to digital TV, movie and (especially) music downloaders. Music and movie copying, lending, gifting, etc. is what this new law has squarely in its crosshairs. It makes it OK to make copies for your own use in your various devices but only if the digital media is DRM-free. The most significant change proposed is the criminalization of circumventing "digital locks" with media that has it.
This is very much like existing US law. And yet most of the products, methods and instructions for stripping unwanted DRM come from our clever neighbours to the south  |
Actually, I'm not very familiar with the intricacies of both laws other than a few points. Public domain in the US is 75 years after death of author, in Canada 50 years. In the US they require DRM for electronic material as in Canada it's only suggested.
This is why so many books proposed in MR's list are allowed, because our main servers are here.