Pay attention. What's implemented in the U.S. will be pushed heavily by U.S. lobbyists in Ottawa next. e.g. After the DMCA and associated acts in the U.S. wer

Pay attention. What's implemented in the U.S. will be pushed heavily by U.S. lobbyists in Ottawa next. e.g. After the DMCA and associated acts in the U.S. were passed, U.S. lobbyists went to work in Canada. The result was a series of bills that were delayed and ultimately not passed by the recent series of minority governments. To ramp up pressure on Canada, the U.S. added Canada to it's piracy "priority watch list" along with countries like China. Piracy is practically non-existent in Canada as compared to China, but that list was never about where piracy is actually happening! Canada will likely never be taken off that list unless we completely obliterate our own film and TV industries and turn the CBC into a re-broadcaster for HBO. Now that there's a majority government, the successor to those failed bills, Bill C-11, is now in the process of being passed. It cleared the House of Commons in June. This bill contains some truly bad legislation on digital locks. i.e. If media has a "digital lock" such as the half-assed encryption on DVD's, it is illegal to circumvent those locks even for fair-use or educational purposes. e.g. Ripping a DVD to your laptop so you can watch it on the plane without bringing along an external DVD player is now illegal because you had to use software that breaks a digital lock to do so. For more on this, read: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6544/125/ http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6544/125/ Canada will see it's own 6-strikes legislation soon enough.