Even though I’m in Canada I don’t really know what’s going on with this. Are we all going to get sued for copyright infringement now that some ass has decided unlocking our phones and making funny YouTube videos is against the law?

From the Facebook group:

If enacted, the Canadian DMCA will leave Canada with one of the most restrictive copyright laws for the digital environment in the world. Far from providing assistance to the digital marketplace, this law will have a stifling effect on creativity, innovation, consumer rights, and free speech in Canada.

Because Pinky is Canadian, I’m pretty sure he’s going to jail forever.

Under the proposal, there are exceptions for uploading or posting music online (ie. making available) and even the suggestion that posting a copyright-protected work to YouTube could result in the larger $20,000 per infringement damage award.

I’m also getting completely screwed.

While Prentice could have adopted a more balanced approach (as New Zealand and Canada’s Bill C-60 did), the effect of these provisions will be to make Canadians infringers for a host of activities that are common today including watching out-of-region-coded DVDs, copying and pasting materials from a DRM’d book, or even unlocking a cellphone.

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