Copyright bill would ban breaking digital locks

That's right, bow to your American masters' wishes!

you guys are still using this line? Must be tougher to say now that Obama is in office.

What I find interesting is that the government can move as quickly to satisfy multi-national corporations who are losing a wee bit of revenue and yet problems for groups like natives and pot smokers can take for bloody ever. Congrats to the nobs on the hill, eh!

Some issues are just easier to solve than others.

How hard would it be to have a referendum? With all the elections we have had to pay for in the last three years, one question at the bottom of the ballot could have solved the pot issue and the native issues have been around for a couple of centuries and completely ignored for most of that time. It's supposed to be about the people's priorities NOT JUST big business.

This law just demonstrates corporate desperation. There is no way that law can be effectively used in preventing a tide. To penalize "breaking digital locks" is the same as if horse-drawn carriage manufacturers lobbied successfully for a ban on automobiles. Technological progress creates sunset products and if you're in the business of making a sunset product, no legislation can save you. This law will ultimately fail, regardless how many 'violators' are punished. The very notion of a "digital lock" in the first place demonstrates the futility in this endeavour, let alone an attempt to enfore it.

you guys are still using this line? Must be tougher to say now that Obama is in office.

You guys? I don't know who you are talking about with comments like that.

I don't care for either of our major political parties and have voted on both sides of the spectrum (to my chagrin usually).

Face it, our politicians generally bend whichever way the American government tells them to, whether or not it's good for us. In my lifetime, we cowed to Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Dubya and now Obama on a variety of issues.

has anyone actually read this bill, or are we trusting the journalists interpretation on it?

I remember reading a media story about canada banning bit torrent clients. When I wrote a letter to to my MLA, I was glad that I was polite and explained that I use bit torrent for legitimate business reasons and it would be unfortunate if it was made illegal.

He replied back with a link to the proposed legislation....the journalist got his information wrong.

I guess until I see the government going after and prosecuting corporate theives with the same gustto I won't have much sympathy for these corporate welfare bums.