Since this was way too short a notice, I can only hope for the best. Setups like this (copy protection) have failed several times in the last 3 decades or so. They where introduced, had great penalties attached to them , and enforced to the hilt only to be dropped and abandoned by its initial instigators as a failure. A voluntary payment system, like with the CC seems to provide a far better alternative. A law that needs to have exceptions on allmost all its sections for law enforcemet, secret service and public libraries is a bad law that obviously does not serve the public intrest. the idea behind copyright law was to protect the book publishers investment against other unscrupulous publishers. It was never meant to intrude on how the end user used, shared talked about made variant of the original material. That was all tucked under a wide cover called fair use. Bill C61 and i am sure we will see the next version soon, obliterates this fair use protection completely. it goes on meticulously enumerating how and nuder what circumstances can the user make one copy for themselves, and that they can only do that if the un-circumventable copy protection was not implemented. And would stipulate giving away a media or a media player with some media on it a punishable big time. (this would make throwing away your disks a major offense btw...) A simple make your product available for use, including fair use, a reasonable price setting and the willing to understand that in today's word , the the ramp for publishing to the mass media has been lowered significantly, and a controlled attribution system might be far more appropriate than a clobber / punish approach.
Copy protection by the way, fails because it turns out that it actually punishes the (legitimate) end user and the so protected dmca / drm , and there are allready examples of this happening in the US a few times. On a side not: protecting the publishers rights here does not translate to protecting the artist. Most of the publishing companies have contracts with their artists that deprives the artists from any on line revenue or does not include that revenue source. It is hypocritical to call the artists intrest into play, they benefit nothing from this, as a side note: what do you think the dispute between the show writers and (Industry) was when the writers went on strike for a few month last year ?? Well , i guess i was quite long winded here. Cheers Szemir On October 24, 2008 16:40, John Jardine wrote: > I know this is short notice but I have a meeting with Jason Kenney > tomorrow regarding what was bill C61. > > If there are any other people that live in his riding that would like to > speak with him on this issue please let me know so I can co-ordinate it > with Kempton Lam of Fair Copyright for Canada. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
