Stealing [creative] content is bad. That said, this act proves what I've suspected the Conservative party of for a while now.
The jist of what is going on is that large American companies are trying to enforce arbitrary limits on how customers can view/enjoy content. They seem to believe that we should be buying a movie in multiple formats so we can enjoy it in different ways. This is despite the existence of simple technologies that allow us to convert or share the content in different ways. Big business is trying to force immoral buisiness practises by getting their philosophy set in law.
This flies in the face of anything resembling a free market principle. That the Conservatives are going along with it demonstrates that they as a whole do not have a clue that a free market is nor that they give a damn about customers.
The Conservative Party of Canada cares more about foreign interests then it does about domestic ones, and this bill serves to highlight that.
Too bad there isn't another right leaning party...
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