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If you're Canadian, you use Linux and you like multimedia, you're about to become a criminal.
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| This is a kind of crosspost summary of a
| new copyright amendment bill that was
| announced yesterday. Bill C-32 attempts to
| 'modernize' copyright law in Canada to
| bring it up to spec with other developed
| nations (aka to meet US agenda).
|
| The bill would make it illegal to
| circumvent or break locks of any kind on
| digital media, even for personal use. This
| supersedes all other provisions of the
| bill, which means you may be a criminal if
| you
|
| * Own and play region-locked DVDs from
| other countries
| * Play regular DVDs on Linux
| * Play Blu-Ray Discs on Linux
| * Transfer media to an iPod Touch /
| iPhone / iPad using Linux
| * Listen to DRM'd music on Linux
|
| And anything else that involves protected
| content that lacks official Linux support.
|
| Speak up while you can. Find your MP and
| write them an email telling them why you
| are opposed to C-62.
|
| We don't want a US style DMCA, please
| don't let that happen.
|
| Edit: Android is also Linux, so this
| applies to all of you Android users too!
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http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/cb2w4/if_youre_canadian_you_use_linux_and_you_like/
Recent:
Canadian copyright collecting agency subverting open debate on copyright
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| Access Copyright, the Canadian author's collecting society (a group that
| collects money from libraries for book lending and gives it to authors) is
| using its members' money to sabotage an enormously popular consultation on
| the future of Canadian copyright.
|
| [...]
|
| As a Canadian author, Access Copyright is supposed to represent my interests
| in the Canadian copyright debate. Instead, they are setting out to undermine
| the first glimmer of sanity in Canadian copyright policy in three
| governments -- and using my money to do it. For shame.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/29/canadian-copyright-c-1.html
Canadian tax software and Linux
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| Well, it's tax time again!
|
| This used to be the part of the year I would
| dread. Not because I feared how much income
| tax I would need to pay, but because I knew I
| would have to get Windows running in a VM or
| on a spare computer in order to use tax
| preparation software.
|
| I would get heartburn from wondering if the
| new flavour-of-the-day copy-protection
| mechanism the software used would actually
| work in a VM, and if it would let me open up
| my files again after reinstalling it if
| something went wrong. Top that off with the
| fact that trusting your important data to
| Windows is like locking your safe with duct
| tape, and I'd be popping Rolaids like candy.
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http://mdeslaur.blogspot.com/2010/02/canadian-tax-software-and-linux.html
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