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Canada passes major overhaul of copyright protection laws

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XiaNaphryz

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http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/canada-passes-major-overhaul-of-copyright-protection-law/

“This is the most comprehensive effort to modernize our copyright laws in over a decade,” James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, said about the country’s controversial new Copyright Modernization Act. The new law — also known as Bill C-11 — aligns Canada more closely with the World Intellectual Property Organization.

The country’s long reluctance to update its anti-piracy laws made it a regular on the U.S. Trade Representative’s annual Priority Watch List. In February the International Intellectual Property Alliance said that Canada’s effort to combat piracy “falls far short of what should be expected of our neighbor and largest trading partner, with ineffective border controls, insufficient enforcement resources, inadequate enforcement policies, and a seeming inability to impose deterrent penalties on pirates.”

Canada’s new law includes a provision that the U.S. strongly supported that makes it illegal for consumers to break so-called digital locks, including copy protection mechanisms on CDs and DVDs. It also increased the penalties for infringment: Those who use copyrights for commercial purposes without the owner’s permission could pay as much as $20,000 while individuals who do so for non-commercial purposes can be charged as much as $5,000. Internet service providers will have to notify customers when a copyright owner identifies a potential infringement.

But the law extends fair dealing provisions to encompass education, parody and satire use; time shifting for legally obtained broadcast media, and reproducing copyrighted work for education purposes. Parliament agreed to review the law every five years. “The legislation isn’t perfect, but it’s a major step forward in terms of job protection and creation in our industry,” says IATSE International President Matthew D. Loeb.
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Funky Papa

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Canada’s new law includes a provision that the U.S. strongly supported that makes it illegal for consumers to break so-called digital locks, including copy protection mechanisms on CDs and DVDs. It also increased the penalties for infringment: Those who use copyrights for commercial purposes without the owner’s permission could pay as much as $20,000 while individuals who do so for non-commercial purposes can be charged as much as $5,000. Internet service providers will have to notify customers when a copyright owner identifies a potential infringement.
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God damnit, Canada.
 
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cstretten

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A better breakdown:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6544/125/

You can make backups, personal copies, format shift all that... but those all fall under the rule of not breaking the digital lock.
So, you can make a backup, unless the disc you're backing up has a digital lock, then you're SOL.

Weak sauce indeed, and we caved to pressure from the USA because we were on their bad person list.
 
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Salvadora

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Canada’s new law includes a provision that the U.S. strongly supported that makes it illegal for consumers to break so-called digital locks, including copy protection mechanisms on CDs and DVDs. It also increased the penalties for infringment: Those who use copyrights for commercial purposes without the owner’s permission could pay as much as $20,000 while individuals who do so for non-commercial purposes can be charged as much as $5,000. Internet service providers will have to notify customers when a copyright owner identifies a potential infringement.
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Good job, Canada.
 
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Jeff-DSA said:
So wait, would ripping a DVD for use on a tablet technically be illegal?
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at first the new laws didnt sound so bad, then you put it in perspective for me.

it basically means theres no legal way of the average joe owning a copyrighted movie as an .avi
 
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Liquidus

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This fucking stupid country.

So all my DVDs that I still own but ripped are illegal eh?! Fuck that noise.
 
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Divvy

Canadians burned my passport
What pisses me off is that Harper will probably still get reelected next election.
 
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VanillaCakeIsBurning

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Maybe I missed it but how are they going to find out people even break the locks in the first place? If it connects to a server or something you could just rip it while disconnected.

Even then I'm sure software will become available to make such locks practically useless.
 
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big_z

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crimzonflame said:
Are the new laws final? Or does it still have to pass? How does this affect downloading?
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It says the copyright owner has to contact the ISP about infringement. ISPs won't be invading your privacy like they do in the states unless a complaint is issued. Most likely this law will hurt people that host files from home servers or webpage owners but downloaders will be safe.
 
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HarryHengst

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Nice to see that American interests continues to keep fucking up things for other countries. Also, get a goddamn spine Canada.
 
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btkadams

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i'm confused. is it sitll legal to download copyrighted material? why would it be illegal to break a copy lock on a dvd you paid for but not download the file off of a torrent site?

massoluk said:
I don't know what you're reading.
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in canada, the law has been that it's illegal to upload, but legal to download.
 
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Astra

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whitehawk said:
lol how would this even be enforced? How is the government, let alone my ISP, know when I rip a CD or DVD?
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Haha, they simply can't know. Unless they put spyware on your computer when you visit the Service Canada site, or any other government site. Either way, I think we're pretty safe ripping our DVDs to watch on our portable devices, or have compiled in a digital collection.
 
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btkadams

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Decado said:
So does this kill torrents in Canada?
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if i'm reading correctly, it mentions nothing that affects torrents/downloads. i know that it has been legal to download in canada, but i'm not sure if it was changed within the past year or not. i'm thinking no, since it would probably have been a huge story.
 
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linkboy

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Samyy said:
How are they even going to know I ripped a dvd/br? -_-
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Harper is going to make it so that you have to register your computer with the government. They'll install spyware on it that you can't remove and will flag and send an e-mail to all of the movie studios, music studios and the US government (who will then try to extradite you to Montana or North Dakota).
 
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IceCold

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Stupid. If Canada wants to stop people from downloading stuff they should start by fixing our ridiculous Internet ISP rates , our stupid bandwidth caps and the bullshit organization known as the CRTC. Then give us good serviced similar to the US version of Netflix, because the version we have here in Canada is crap. The idea that it's illegal to copy content that has been purchased legally is also a load of bull. Then they wonder why people torrent?
 
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