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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Maybe I'm confused, but doesn't this bill now give Canadians the express right to make copies of music they have LEGALLY purchased?
In so doing, does it not, then, make it illegal for a company to purposefully attempt to prevent that right by installing DRM utilities on their CDs?
I'm no law expert... but you can't have a law that gives two parties opposing rights. You can't give one guy the right to do something while giving someone else the right to prevent them from doing it.
I know it says "circumventing technical measures" but you can't tell me that some enterprising lawyer won't be able to get a judge to rule that a DRM utility on a music CD directly impedes another person's (now-granted) right to copy it to a device they legally own.
I don't know... I guess I'm having a hard time understanding how this is going to interfere with my ability to still go on doing things I already do: legally purchasing movies and CDs and copying them to my PS3 to watch later, or copying my legally purchased CDs to my hard drive at the office to listen to while I code... or to copy legally purchased CDs to my iPhone (soon!!)...
etc etc.
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Take this with a grain of salt since I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of this bill (largely taken from Michael Geist,
who is a lawyer) is as follows:
C-61 grants you the explicit right to copy a CD to another format (such as MP3) for personal, non-commercial use,
unless the CD was crippled with copy protection and you had to break the DRM to rip the CD. Even if you were format-shifting for personal, non-commercial use (such as copying the CD to your iPod or other portable device), if you had to crack the DRM, it's a violation of C-61.