I'm an Independant Performing Artist and P2P software on the Internet is the best way to distribute my original songs. I don't want CIRA or RIIA or anyone else telling me what I can't or can't do with my own intellectual property! Make legislation for the Internet that is based on the Internet and not other outdated laws written for different things (like the record industry) and just adapted for the Internet. Start fresh!
The WIPO treaties are just more cost, more energy-robbing friction, and more entropy, all stiffling normal everyday human interactions, and they will eventually suffocate civilization and progress. When can I expect to receive a ceast-and-desist letter because I used a copyrighted phrase in a converstation with someone? Sigh.
A "notice and takedown" system will not enhance our Canadian Heritage but could and probably would cause hardship, censorship and a loss of privacy rights for many honest Canadians.
A "notice and takedown" system will not enhance our Canadian Heritage but could and probably would cause hardship, censorship and a loss of privacy rights for many honest Canadians.
The price of blank media has been taxed to recoup the cost of piracy... no further action is required as I have to pay levies on media that I DON'T USE FOR PIRACY, not just what I use for movies.
The current copyright system is more than adequet for current needs. Compensation is all ready built into every CD-R/burner/mp3 player that we, the consumer buy. Yah, everyone downloads something, but your getting compensated indirectly already. Quit taking away our rights when we are already paying for them already!!!
This runs against any effort at conscientious global cooperation. Also, the nature of the Internet is essentially that of free exchange. There will always be abuse, but to ascribe powers of "control" to convenient parties whose interests and organization never included policing their clients will create situations that encroach on individual rights.
This approach to copyright is headed in the wrong direction; it is harmful to innovation, culture, communications, and public dialogue. Please don't grant these kinds of powers to the "rights industry" at the expense of the rest of society.
I am not just another enter-email-and-click protester. I am a normal citizen living in Toronto. I do not think an ISP should be held liable for someone else's actions. Any action that might destroy someone's property should have probable cause, in the form of a court order or warrant. It should not become a tool for lawyers, damaging innocent people, as it has become in other countries.
Keep Canada free from this kind of bullying, please.
This isn't fair to the Canadian consumer, the voter, who should be first before major corporations. I will not stand idly by while my country turns into the US which is run by by coroporations.
I am a Canadian and I live in my own country. I do not want a foreign country or power dictating what I can and cannot do with my Canadian Culture.
Our unique culture and language is slowly being eroded away. By bowing to external interests we will be losing even more of what makes us Canadian.
This is a form of pre-emptive punishment, a slap on the wrist to every consumer regardless of their actions. Additionally, it goes one step further in making the United States the policy-makers for the entirity of the global internet. Do not take away our voice!
Economic growth requires the support of new industries and market efficiencies, not the protection of old market systems.
Nov 11th is about the struggle for freedom of tha many from the few, this is a huge step backwards in time. The artists are doing just fine in the market.
Copyright law, originally a fair even-handed contract between copyright holders and the public, has already become strongly biased in favour of copyright holders and their profit-seeking intermediaries. These changes would only make things worse.
Directly observing the negative effects of U.S. WIPO policy enables Canada to avoid the same pitfalls. Don't squander this important advantage by blindly following Bush!
Canadian Citizen (AB) Legislation of this nature is what could start paving the wrong path towards a country that does not allow free speech or civil rights.
Where are the safeguards for the privacy of citizens? Where is the safeguard against spurious claims?
Nothing short of a court order should be used force any action by ISPs.
This proposition puts undo strain on many organizations that have no capability and no staff ready to handle many of the new requirements.
Software has never been, and will never be a replacement for Human common Sense!
