Of a potential Canadian digital rights sewer

I read a moment ago on /. Canada’s New DMCA Considered Worst Copyright Law and was horrified. The link is to this article on the Globe and Mail: A new copyright law is coming.

All Canadians need to do their part to protest this obscene piece of potential legislature. I’m not normally a protester or even marginally political… I’ve always dutifully voted, but I’ve never protested anything. Michael Geist has a good bit of information if you want to do more than shake your head: 30 Days of DRM: 30 Things You Can Do.

For myself, I emailed the following today:

From: Vincent Danen
To: Goldring.P@parl.gc.ca
Cc: goldrp1@parl.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, prentice.j@parl.gc.ca, copyright-droitdauteur@ic.gc.ca, enqserv@dfait-maeci.gc.ca
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Subject: Rejection of DMCA-modeled copyright law in Canada
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Good morning. I’m writing this morning to express my views on this new
proposed copyright law as noted here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071127.WBcyberia20071127170629/WBStory/WBcyberia

This is absolutely disgusting and I find it insulting that Canadians
should have to follow the mess that America has made of DRM. May I
remind you that we pay a levy on all recordable media to allow us the
freedom to make backups for personal use? What happened to the concept
of fair use?

I was proud to be Canadian knowing that the garbage the RIAA was pulling
in the US would not come north of the border.

I also find it ridiculous in the extreme that the Canadian government
would put the concerns of big business (especially *foreign* big
business) before the concerns of the Canadian public. May I remind you
all that the Canadian government is elected by the *Canadian* *people*
and not by corrupt and greedy corporations, particularly those not even
based in this country?!?

My understanding is that very little of the levy has actually reached
Canadian artists, if any at all. That mismanagement of tax should not
be an excuse to ratify some obscene bill to appease greedy corporate
America.

I, and I know many of my fellow Canadians, appreciate the freedoms we
have as Canadians. Please think twice before you turn this country into
the same digital-rights-sewer that is currently the USA.

–
Vincent Danen @ http://linsec.ca/