Raise the Hammer

Yep. I'm annoyed enough when I have to hack a device and void the warranty just to get it to do what I want.... it's horrible when the government makes this a legally punishable offense.

I bought it, I own it now, and piss off for telling me what to do with my property.

That said, it's not like I was going to vote for the Cons in the first place, so it doesnt' change much. Whenever I mention this to non-nerds, the reaction is inevitably "who the heck is bothered by that? The only people who hack their own hardware are nerds".

I love politics. I just hate politicians and voters.

Hey CPC, where are my property rights? As in, I bought this gizmo, I own it, and if I want to hack the firmware on it it's my goddamned business?

Comment edited by Pxtl on 2010-06-24 11:35:39

I trust the market

Is code for: I am beholden to corporate interest.

Christopher has it right.
"I trust the market" to heavily finance my re-election campaign.

I was in on that twitter exchange and despite the fact that I think MP Moore is far more interested in campaign contributions than citizen's votes, I do have to congratulate him for even showing up to the ball.

Of course, he didn't answer my two most important questions:

1/ Is Her Majesty's government going back into the "legislating business practices" business -- is this the East India Copyright?

2/ If all legislation is put together, how does the idea of marital property (dual ownership) go against DRM - my spouse and I are legally REQUIRED to share everything.

Not to mention the simple fact that I'm not going to buy two copies of Coraline so that I can use it on two iPods to keep both my kids shut up for the drive to Grandmas house.

Isn't there something about making a law which immediately makes the vast majority of the citizens into criminals a bad plan?

If anyone doesn't "trust the market" it's Moore, like the CRIA and CMPDA he knows damn well that NOBODY likes DRM and will just route around it unless the government makes it a crime.

Isn't there something about making a law which immediately makes the vast majority of the citizens into criminals a bad plan? - Myrcurial

I guess that depends on what they're planning ; )

Branding us "radicals"? What's next, passing secret legislation permitting police to search the homes of people who sign petitions opposing the copyright act? This government is trying to marginalize anyone who disagrees with the bill, which unfortunately is the majority of Canadians (if the results from their last attempted copyright reform are any indication).

Maybe when CSIS said that some politicians were under the influence of foreign governments they meant our federal ministers who are being pressured by their US counterparts to adopt US style copyright legislation.

I don't typically point people to other websites, but for copyright issues I think we have to acknowledge the "go to" person in Canada is Micahel Geist. He's a champion of fair and balanced copyright reform information. He has extensive coverage on this issue and is often quoted in news articles. Visit his site for more information on copyright and read his concerns. Google "Michael Geist" to find his website.

Related

The bill would make P2P or BitTorrent client development a criminal offense if the distributed software was used for infringement. It also implements an interesting provision called "imminent infringement", which allows the government to charge people who they think might be about to infringe with a civil offense (for example if you searched "torrent daft punk").

Emphasis added by me

Great now they want to prosecute thoughtcrimes.

Comment edited by UrbanRenaissance on 2010-06-25 14:15:31

If he trusted the market he'd let us use our iPhones for what we want. He's trusting corporations.

Put aside the obvrious handouts to industry here - big corporate giants which dominate markets diabling functions on their high-priced gizos like the way iTouches and iPhones have been programmed not to use VOIP functions (or else people wouldn't buy phone contracts or use up their minutes). Or how most smart-phones these days won't connect to your own WiFi unless you buy a pricey data plan from them. Or how discs bought for DVD players or game systems in Europe won't work on the same players here. This is theft, plain and simple, being institutionalized under the guise of adapting to new technologies.

DRM just doesn't work. DVDs don't generally contain much more data than CDs (they certainly didn't for years) - the extra few gigabytes of space is just used up by encoding the data to many times its original size to make copying impossible. Though this code was cracked long ago and now even my sister can make backup copies of her DVDs, they still insist on this rediculous waste of space and materials. Or perhaps the perfect example Windows Genuine Advantage (two words of which are absolute lies), which not only fails miserably at stopping me from pirating anything, but also is dug so deep into Windows coding (with the usual microsoft quality) that it consistantly crashes windows systems of people who couldn't pirate a song if their life depended on it. For all too many people, breaking and bypassing DRM software or WGA is the only way to get their computer and music to work as promised - is that going to be illegal now?

Why would any consumer want a copy of a song, book or movie that can be disabled from a central server? That they can't share with friends or even move onto new computers iPods when the old ones break down without re-buying them. Why would a consumer want a file format which is virtually guaranteed to become unplayable at some point due the morons who tried to regulate your access to them? And finally, why would a consumer want to by hardware to play these things which has a pile of its basic features disabled?

Here's link to Search Engine (Jesse Brown, previously on CBC Radio, Now at TVO). Most of the last half dozen or so blog entries are related to how this new legislation could turn journalists into criminals for reusing copyrighted material in various ways.

http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/searcheng...

Lets defeat the corporations by simply eschewing ALL their content/bloatware. All these entertainments do nothing but distract us from their corrupting of our institutions, even freedom, and since Linux is freely available, there is no longer any reason to patronize MSFT or even AAPL. My tiny little Puppy Linux (100mb) runs quite fine on a decade old machine so even the hardware industry can be brought to heel by the public.

Politically we need to do something awful fast. A new people's party or even Athenian democracy which might work thanks to modern technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_de...