I am a radical extremist, intent on subverting the goals of our government
Or, at least, so James Moore feels, and has said. The "Honourable" James Moore has termed me a radical extremist, as I seek to oppose certain provisions within Bill C-32. (ref: http://money.canoe.ca/money/business/international/archives/2010/06/20100622-145853.html). Now, either this is slander, and I, along with the thousands of other Canadians who have spoken up against provisions in this bill deserve an apology and a retraction from Moore, or it is true, and I can expect a knock on the door from the RCMP sometime soon. Which will it be?
To reiterate on previous communications with all of you, I feel that Bill C-32 is _almost_ a good compromise between the rights of content creators and consumers. Unfortunately, the sections on Technological Protection Measures, as they are currently written, trump any other section of the Bill. If any copyrighted work has any TPM on it, the proposed bill would make it illegal to circumvent that TPM, even for purposes expressly listed in the fair dealing section of the bill.
The Canadian government, and I'm sure Moore in particular, has doubtless received thousands of communications about this particular clause within the Bill. It also featured heavily in the copyright consultation recently held (and largely ignored) by the government. What have you to say about that? Are we a democratic nation? Does the government even pretend to respond to the will of the people, or is it just a collection of corporate shills, kowtowing to the wishes of American media conglomerates?
I understand that the section on TPMs is an attempt to fulfill our requirements under the WIPO Internet Treaties. However, these obligations can be fulfilled without such draconian, and, let's face it, ridiculous measures. The WIPO Internet Treaties require legal status for technological protections, but many groups have confirmed that there is enough flexibility that simply stating circumventing TPMs for the purposes of copyright infringement is illegal would be sufficient. There is no onus to prevent the distribution of devices which can circumvent TPMs, or to prevent people from offering their services in circumventing TPMs.
In summary, here I sit in my home, waiting for one of two things. Perhaps I'm going to be arrested as a radical extremist. Or perhaps I will get an apology from Moore, and my government will actually start listening to what I, and thousands of my countrymen, are trying to tell it.
-psychedelicbike
To reiterate on previous communications with all of you, I feel that Bill C-32 is _almost_ a good compromise between the rights of content creators and consumers. Unfortunately, the sections on Technological Protection Measures, as they are currently written, trump any other section of the Bill. If any copyrighted work has any TPM on it, the proposed bill would make it illegal to circumvent that TPM, even for purposes expressly listed in the fair dealing section of the bill.
The Canadian government, and I'm sure Moore in particular, has doubtless received thousands of communications about this particular clause within the Bill. It also featured heavily in the copyright consultation recently held (and largely ignored) by the government. What have you to say about that? Are we a democratic nation? Does the government even pretend to respond to the will of the people, or is it just a collection of corporate shills, kowtowing to the wishes of American media conglomerates?
I understand that the section on TPMs is an attempt to fulfill our requirements under the WIPO Internet Treaties. However, these obligations can be fulfilled without such draconian, and, let's face it, ridiculous measures. The WIPO Internet Treaties require legal status for technological protections, but many groups have confirmed that there is enough flexibility that simply stating circumventing TPMs for the purposes of copyright infringement is illegal would be sufficient. There is no onus to prevent the distribution of devices which can circumvent TPMs, or to prevent people from offering their services in circumventing TPMs.
In summary, here I sit in my home, waiting for one of two things. Perhaps I'm going to be arrested as a radical extremist. Or perhaps I will get an apology from Moore, and my government will actually start listening to what I, and thousands of my countrymen, are trying to tell it.
-psychedelicbike