The fact of receiving the letters counts. They count them all and while they don't necessarily read them or use them, they do count them up and use various multipliers to see how many people called them. A hand written letter counts the most and they count each item as counting for x number of people who didn't get around to writing or calling.
I sent the PMs office an e-mail as well and received an answer at least saying that they'd received it. One expectation is that this will die on the order paper. It would be very difficult to enforce and the multitude of ways it could be defended against is so large with so many exceptions that it would be a huge waste of time. I also mentioned the tax imposed by the Liberals that we all pay on all blank media, mp3 players, hard drives, USB drives, etc that is supposed to be paid out to the artists to compensate them for any copying done by Canadians. In short, we all pay with every piece of storage media whether or not it's used to copy music. No one in Canada could be charged now because we all pay a "license" fee attached to our media. The CDRWs I use to back up my data at work are paying for music as are the CDs and DVDs I use to back up the digital photos that I take. ----- Original Message ---- From: John Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CLUG General <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:10:46 PM Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Canadian DCMA protest I read their letter, it sounded very stiff and formal so I wrote my own: > Dear Ministers, > > I'm wondering how this piece of legislation will impact me. > > I believe that today I can do things like copy my CD collection to my iPod > and media-server. I can also sample those songs and use them as ring-tones > on my phone. This has allowed me to enjoy the music I have purchased > anywhere in my home via the media server and portably via my iPod. > > Will I still be able to do this under the new legislation? Can I continue to > listen to the MP3s I've made of my CDs? I don't want to have to go back to > carrying 100s of CD when I can just bring my iPod. > > I have run into a few CDs which have been copy-protected. This is usually > trivial to bypass and I can proceed to load the music onto my iPod. As I > understand the new law this will no longer be permitted. What > counterbalancing benefit is offered to offset this? > > I also have a smaller collection of movies on DVD. I have copied these to my > media-server allowing me to watch them on any TV or computer in my home. I > have also transcoded the movies so that I can watch them on my Sony PSP. > Will these be permitted uses under the new legislation? > > My computers are Linux & Solaris based and that has always presented problems > for movie player software which has often been released as 'Windows only'. > Will I be able to continue using 3rd party software to watch my movies? > > Are these new legislative restrictions explicitly mandated by the WIPO > agreement or are they in addition to that agreement? > > I guess what would really clear things up for me is a table identifying > common uses of music & movies, their current permitted uses under the > existing law, their proposed permitted uses under the new law and whether or > not any new restrictions are specifically mandated by WIPO. > > Additionally - where new restrictions are not mandated by WIPO, what is the > rational for the restriction and how does this benefit are average Canadian? > > Sincerely, > John Jardine Don't know if it'll actually make a difference, but I know that by doing nothing I can't make a difference. Cheers, J.J. On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 12:14 -0600, Tom Weniger wrote: > Greetings, > > As some of you may know, Bill C-61 is in the house of commons right > now and is a horrible piece of law. Basically it's a copy of the > American DMCA and will allow companies to start suing Canadians for > everything under the sun. > > Go here to fill out a simple form and they mail a letter to Stephen > Harper for you. Do something about it. > > http://www.ccer.ca/send-a-letter-to-harper-prentice-verner-and-stop-the-canadian-dmca/ > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying __________________________________________________________________ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
