Looks like Canada is moving on ahead with the most absurd copyright law adjustments I've ever heard.

It's like their research was done in the 80's and 90's, when people were using dual-disk casette players or daisy chained vcrs to make duplicates of albums and movies for their friends.

So soon it'll be illegal to circumvent the copy-protection on media? I don't actually know anyone that does that...

This article has some neat piracy ethics quotes.

"For instance, sometimes, to spare them the menus and commercials at the beginning of their DVDs, he downloads an online version or copies the DVD. That’s illegal, he acknowledges, but if Hollywood makes it impossible to skip straight to the movie, he figures it’s fair game."

"But even in their house, they fudge the rules: The family likes to watch Japanese television shows that aren’t licensed in North America, so they download them from a site that translates them into English. Once the show becomes available in North America, they’ll delete the content from their computer, she says."

Clearly they aren't dub haters, since last I checked, people just getting unofficial subs
and not buying official releases is hurting the anime industry. Which is a problem should the licenser of said anime not include a sub of their own.
Course I'm sure English is pirated a lot too.

A dub isn't worth paying for anyway, especially for the prices those companies charge for DVDs.

Actually in a lot of ways our version of the DMCA is better. The only thing is circumventing DRM is illegal, which is the only direct equivalent to the US version, and is still the most problematic.

Anytime you rip or pull files off something that has copy protection, you're guilty of circumventing DRM. So that does affect just about anyone looking to make copies or backups or anything.

It was put pretty plainly by a comment on the CBC forums, which said pretty much:

"If I have a cd that is 50 years old, and the copyright has expired, and it has drm... it's still illegal to make a copy of it. So doesn't that mean they'll have extended copyrights forever?"

I'm okay with everything else, just gotta get rid of this breaking "digital locks" bullshit.