Canada's new copyright bill

[Rainbow Dash]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/09/28/technology-copyright-bill.html


Consumers and copyrightThe previously introduced copyright bill, C-32, would have given consumers new rights to:


Record TV, radio and internet broadcasts to enjoy at a later time.
Copy songs and other content they have bought to devices they own, such as MP3 players.
Create backup copies of songs and other content they own.
Use copyrighted materials to create a parody or satire under fair dealing.
Use copyrighted materials they have legitimately acquired to create user-generated content for non-commercial purposes. For example, users could post a home video of friends dancing to a popular song and post it online.

However, they would not be able to exercise these rights if doing so required the circumvention or breaking of a digital lock.




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[neuro]

a step in the right direction.

[Hotrod]

Agreed with Neuro, this looks like it would do more good than anything.

[Rainbow Dash]

uhm

It's pretty much oh here you can do these things unless there's any drm involved, then you're not allowed.

How is that good

[sleepy1212]

Everything in Canada will have drm. Enjoy your useless law.

[=sw=warlord]

uhm

It's pretty much oh here you can do these things unless there's any drm involved, then you're not allowed.

How is that good
I'd love to see DRM used over radio broadcasts..

[TPBlinD]

I'd love to see DRM used over radio broadcasts..Yeah. I record radio broadcasts all the time bro.

[=sw=warlord]

Yeah. I record radio broadcasts all the time bro.
Listening in on those pesky commie spies eh.
EH?!

[Rainbow Dash]

Use copyrighted materials they have legitimately acquired to create user-generated content for non-commercial purposes. For example, users could post a home video of friends dancing to a popular song and post it online.

This one is obviously the closest to home here, and would effectively ban any of the modding we want to do that was locked in Halo 1, or h2v, meaning we WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED to unlock the editing kits, and it also goes for games with no modding support where the community would have had to hackjob new content in.

This isn't a step in the right direction.

A step in the right direction would be to outright ban all DRM, since it serves fuck all of a purpose, and almost always only affects legitimate customers. This would include telling console game publishers that their discs need to be readable by PCs, none of this bullshit where your computer can't read these discs thus negating your legal right to back up your content unless you're a super expert on this shit.

Of course it's fucking obvious that it's just being made to include these poor provisions due to pressure from the US anyway lol.

[Rainbow Dash]

Additionally instead of trying to milk consumers through court cases, these companies could learn to fucking adapt, instead of keeping a model that's decades old. We've seen it all several times, with free to play games, and music services like Spotify.

There's loads of ways they could make piracy a less desirable or an impossible way of acquiring something, instead of fucking consumers straight up the ass with a giant capitalist dick with DRM and other shitty ways to "protect" their copyright.