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21st January Comments

Canadian Privacy Commissioner rejects DRM: don’t give spyware legal protection!

Posted on January 21st, 2008 at 7:23 am

Jennifer Stoddart, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has published an open letter to Industry Minister Jim Prentice, who has been working behind the scenes to resurrect his disaster of a copyright bill, which will import the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Canada. The DMCA has been a total failure, resulting in nearly 30,000 lawsuits against music fans, massive anti-competitive effects, and despite all that, no discernable decrease in unauthorised copying.

Source: Boing Boing

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