Listening to the radio this morning, the news said something to the effect - "The new copyright bill was passed, and it said you were still allowed to copy your CDs to your iPod".
No mention about if there was and DRM on the CD, the same type of spin the canned emails said.
Previously, the big ISPs all banded together and said they did not want to be the ones to police and report their users. I haven't heard a response from them.
I wonder if we will - Sympatico (Bell), Rogers, Telus all are also Cellphone providers (and Shaw is applying for the new bandwidth space, so they want in the business) - and the were thrown a bone with the provision that makes it illegal to unlock a phone. Can't unlock a phone I have purchased?
And the whole "Record a show but must be watched as soon as convenient"? What sort of BS is that? So if you want to record "Lost" so you can go back and look for clues, you are breaking the law?
If they have no plan to enforce this, whey even introduce the bill? If they were clever, they would not make it a confidence vote, and let the bill be defeated so it can go away for another few years.
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