Bill C-61 is an absurd new law, touted as “made in Canada” but crafted by greedy American corporations and brought to the table by Canadian legislator — uninformed fools who, for want of a better expression, don’t know shit about fuck (that would be Stephen Harper’s Conservatives).
Michael Geist writes often (and relentlessly) about the absurdity of this proposed law and I’ve mentioned it here, too. To refresh: digital format-shifting — i.e. ripping a CD or DVD which you purchased to your iTunes and then to your iPod and then merely backing up those files to a DVD — will be an offense, as will keeping an episode of Fringe on your DVR beyond a “reasonable” length of time. Want to go back and watch the premiere? Tough; it’s not yours to keep. But the wrongness and FAIL doesn’t end there.
Your absolute best resource is Michael Geist’s site, but this recent film will, in 11 minutes and 20 seconds, explain succinctly Bill C-61′s affront to creativity, culture and, well, common sense. The majority of Canadians will become criminals under the proposed law, and while you may whinge that there’s no way in hell they could possibly enforce such a law, the potential for selective enforcement looms large.
And we know how that “selective enforcement” thing usually goes (*cough*bible*cough*)… Check it out:
Video: C-61
(via Doctorow at BoingBoing).
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Here here! More Canadians need to see this and know how American media giants are pressuring Conservative politicians into passing utterly stupid laws, that they barely understand themselves.