There is a huge debate on this topic, but in Canada the Tories want to pass the bill C-61
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/12/tech-copyright.html
I'm personally against this bill but some aren't. Its a sensible bill to protect creators but it will screw up the country, if only it were passed before the whole copyright infringement thing started.
Hmmm. Well it sounds good on line one, and then you read down and realise they are giving no rights whatsoever, because all the electronic files will be copy-protected, and you are fined 20k for breach of copy-protection if you try to make said legal copy.
Exactly, they are pretty much giving you a bunch of redundant rights, except, if there is DRM, well those rights are not really useful...
Hey! Nice to see something in canada!
Well, I'm against this law project as I download tons of movies but...
I've read last year in the news-paper that Montreal was the first North American city where people was getting those movies.
As for example, they record the movie DIRECTLY from the theater with an hidden camera and they send it on the web once the movie is ended. And believe it or not, the article was saying that a film which was recorded from a theater at 11:00 AM (at montreal) was on the New-York city streets at 16 PM.
And the movie developpers can lose a lot of money with it.
That's why I would agree with this law project.....
