Canada Proposes Draconian Anti-Piracy Law

[zatoicchi]

Canada, one of the shining lights in the copyright and intellectual property world, has a shadow approaching that may dim that for all. The name of that shadow? Bill c-61, which was formally introduced by Industry minister Jim Prentice an hour or two ago. One of the ‘highlights’ is the abolition of court’s flexibility in statutory damages, fixing it at $500 (CAD)

Canada Proposes Draconian Anti-Piracy Law | TorrentFreak

[anon]

It will, however, prevent that activity, though criminalization, if there is any sort of technological restriction on it. Anti-copy flags on TV shows, DRM on music, or rootkits on CDs would mean that any attempt to make a fair use, would be subject to prosecution and heavy fines.

so if you for example buy a DRMed cd and want to have its tracks in your ipod, they could place you behind bars

[Aurion]

so if you for example buy a DRMed cd and want to have its tracks in your ipod, they could place you behind bars

Yeah sure,they already invented something similar to that a couple of years ago called "Watermarks" but the Trick is that they have put those marks on every single track that is intended to be released so that if by any mean it got leaked out,they recognize the Criminal

[anon]

something like that could be done now, just generate a copy of whatever it is the user will download which will have 4 "random" bytes attached to it. then download pirated/cracked releases and you know who did it xD

of course that's a little bit lame and will be detected everyone will ask for "00 00 00 00" copies of program X version 12.34