[FanIn80]

Unfortunately, it's not about how you use a CD. I buy my own CDs and rip them to my iTunes, too.

It's about the simple fact that music CDs are very easy to copy and distribute illegally. A cell phone isn't.

All the other stuff is another issue altogether. I'm merely responding to your comparison of DRM on a CD vs a service provider locking a cell phone.

For the record, it will not be illegal for you to copy your CD to your iTunes library. It will only be illegal to circumvent copy-protection in order to copy that CD into your iTunes library. This gives you the right to make the copy, and the content provider the right to prevent you from making that copy, if they wish to use it.

All the legislation is doing is granting each party their rights. The rights both parties should have had all along. It is then up to each party to decide how to proceed.

So... 6 months from now, if you go to Futureshop to buy a CD and see a label on it that says it has copy-protection (I feel this label should be mandatory), then you get to choose whether or not to purchase it.

If enough people choose not to purchase it, I'm willing to bet that it gets re-released without copy-protection.

I don't see any problems with that, whatsoever.

Realize, again, that I am still only discussing the DRM thing on music (and movies, I suppose).

All the other stuff isn't really that big of a deal to me, since I rent my movies and buy my TV shows with my Apple TV. I don't use a PVR and I don't bittorrent them anymore (again this is because of quality issues, not moral high-ground).

Edit: To be clear... I'm not saying that I like any of this legislation, I just don't see it as the problem everyone else is making it out to be. To be perfectly honest, I'd much rather the Government spend their time, resources and our money on changing the media industries themselves so that the whole process makes more sense... but I'm not sure that they can do that even if they wanted to.

Putting everything else aside, I'm certainly not going to throw my vote away on re-electing those crooks and scam artists from the other party, or (almost as bad) the NDP, just because the PCs want to make it a criminal offense to hack someone's copy-protected CD.