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Comment on 2 more reasons Bill C-32′s Digital Locks have to go. by Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:47:54 +0000

I’m in the same boat with the digital copies too!

I ordered a few movies from amazon us, because they were much cheaper. (District 9, Inglorious Basterds, Terminator Salvation and The Hangover)

Because I bought them in the US, I can’t load the digital copies into my iTunes, because I have a Canadian iTunes account.

Basically, they’re useless.

Lame.

Comment on Should gamers love Bill C-32? Not one bit. by Linda

Linda — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:42:31 +0000

“Let’s ensure that only our MPs can legislate us as criminals not businesses”.

This is a theme that is emerging in discussions elsewhere on the net and something I hope the legislators/lawmakers are sensitive to.

Comment on 2 more reasons Bill C-32′s Digital Locks have to go. by Tracee Wickens

Tracee Wickens — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:11:38 +0000

awesome blog tx for this

Comment on 2 more reasons Bill C-32′s Digital Locks have to go. by Glen

Glen — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:28:30 +0000

Great article; As a Canadian this concerns me. Personally I’d rather have the digital generic avi file than buy the actual title. I don’t want to sit through previews and warning screens from the fbi. I don’t want to deal with a physical library. I want to be able to back up my entire library with the click of a button.

Canada has the potential to be a perfect influential country.

Comment on 2 more reasons Bill C-32′s Digital Locks have to go. by Richard B.

Richard B. — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:06:37 +0000

Thanks for the video. I forwarded your first one on to my MP as a supplement to my first email to him, and I have received positive feedback from his executive assistant every time I’ve contacted them about this issue – she said that she would forward my info to him.

One point I raised in my first email to him was that I use Linux, and since it doesn’t support “official” dvd playback, every time I watch a DVD on my laptop – under bill C-32 I would be breaking the law. This serves no purpose.

Thanks.

Comment on 2 more reasons Bill C-32′s Digital Locks have to go. by Usher

Usher — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:38:17 +0000

Great vid Graham. Loving the blog

Comment on Should gamers love Bill C-32? Not one bit. by Do not pass go!

Do not pass go! — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:44:21 +0000

In response to the op-ed “Why gamers should love copyright bill”, I ask
what if Parker Brothers could’ve made cheating at monopoly a criminal
offense? Imagine sending your sister away to court to receive a $5000
fine for stealing from the game bank.

C32 allows just that! Imagine that you modified a Monopoly program on
your computer, protected by technical protection mechanisms, to give you
$5000 extra when you play alone in the privacy of your own home. The
program notices this modification and tattles on you to the game
publisher. The next week you receive a summons to appear in court
because you’re being charged with breaking the TPM of the video-game.
Now instead of getting $5000 in Monopoly money, Bill C32 fines you $5000
in real money.

C32 protects TPM and criminalizes any infringement, these measures are
naively made and easy to break even accidentally.
It should not be up to a video game publisher to be to craft rules to
determines if a citizen is a criminal or not, we should not allow them
the legal protection of TPM as described in bill C32. Let’s ensure that
only our MPs can legislate us as criminals not businesses.

Comment on DVDs and Digitial Locks: Fix Bill C-32 by Tweets that mention DVDs and Digitial Locks: Fix Bill C-32 -- Topsy.com

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Comment on Should gamers love Bill C-32? Not one bit. by Russell McOrmond

Russell McOrmond — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:32:03 +0000

The ESA understands technology well enough to know that they are using technical measures to protect contracting terms, and nothing related to copyright.

I believe they are being dishonest and don’t want the accountability and transparency that comes with provincial contract law. In other words, these folks are rejecting the rule of law and want Canada to offer a lower level of protection of e-Commerce and contract law.

http://BillC32.ca/5156