This afternoon, Tony Clement is scheduled to introduce a bill entitled “An act to amend the Copyright Act”, which has been rumoured to be a Canadian carbon copy of the overbearing and ineffective Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) introduced in the United States in 1998.
Last summer, an extensive consultation conducted by the government found that an overwhelming majority of Canadians support shorter, more relaxed copyright laws. While we hold out hope that the government will heed its own citizens’ concerns, we are nevertheless expecting and preparing for yet another repeat of bills C-60 in 2005 and C-61 in 2008, both of which met with massive public opposition and died on the Order Paper when elections were called.
We will provide a subsequent statement once the bill is available to us later today, and will continue to analyze its contents, effects, and motivations in the days and weeks to come.
I have literally had enough of this government, I am one of many albertans that doesnt support the PC Party, I never have and never will. I am so sick and tired of things I used to take for granted yesterday being illegal today. What gives the government any rights to take away my rights or other canadians rights. The internet wasnt created for the government to take away our rights to share with each other and to download. I have had it, I want to see a new party take over as government, I am a strong supporter of the Pirate Party, there views and Idea’s are right up my alley, and they address my concerns as well as everyone else’s.
I forsee this bill dying on the table just like Bill C-61 did, and another election being called, Cause I will be damned if they arent going to hear my voice, I will tear them a new asshole if I have too. I wasnt born in the states, so why should I give up my liberties and freedoms like the people in the US did to support the lobby groups for the Music and Movie Industry. Like when the Hell did Democracy become a Corporation. I am sick of these corporations going to private places with members of parliament and paying them large amounts of money to make laws in there favour.
It is time yet again for us to stand up for our rights, before they get taken away, cause I will be God Damned if there going to take any more of my rights away.
In the immortal words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
I am sick and tired of this *minority* government trying to turn us into the 51st state. Down with harper, Down with ACTA, Down with the conservatives. Viva la revolution!
Exactly my friend, the time has come to fight for your rights !!! Actually I was thinking to make it our official slogan. What do you think ppl ?
What Canada needs is a REAL socialist party. Not the NDPs, who are afraid to raise taxes. Not the Bloq, who has other missions (namely, to separate Québec).
What the Pirate Party is fighting is corporate domination of the government, and by extension, the public. This is something that every socialist stands for. Is the Pirate Party going to be Canada’s real socialist party? Or is it just digital rights advocacy? What is your position on the political compass?