The CBC radio show Search Engine interviewed Industry Minister Jim Prentice. Take a listen and hear him lie about the Bill and then hang up on the hosts. This Bill has to die and Prentice has to lose his job. Please, write you MP and tell them to crush this Bill.
UPDATE:
Prentice calls the Bill highly technical and thinks it is too confusing for us peons. I gave it another read and it is easy to find the troubling parts. For example clause 17, amending section 29.2 (Reproduction onto another medium or device), states that you are allowed to make limited copies for personal use provided that:
(c) the individual, in order to make the reproduction, did not circumvent a technological measure or cause one to be circumvented, within the meanings of the definitions “circumvent” and “technological measure” in section 41;
And there you have it. You have personal use rights, unless there is a digital lock. For anyone who doesn’t get the whole digital lock thing, this means that you can’t ever copy a DVD for any reason (even watching YOUR DVD on YOUR ipod), because DVDs have CSS protection. Also, you can’t make a song you downloaded on iTunes be you cell phone ringtone, because those songs nearly always have FairPlay protection.
Basically, under this law you have rights to your media, unless companies decide that you don’t. Thanks a lot Prentice.
UPDATE #2:
Michael Geist, a University of Ottawa law prof, has a list of 30 things you can do to stop the Bill C-61.
