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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
So you're basing your voting decision entirely on the outcome of one bill, and how it impacts your ability to burn your CD's to our computer?
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I'm basing my voting decision entirely on the outcome of one bill, and how it impacts my right to format shift a DVD I purchase -- after circumventing the digital lock -- into a format iTunes can understand, and vice versa.
Hollywood wants me to pay twice. Once for the DVD, and once for the soft copy. And in its current form, Bill C-32 will make this a law. One that could see me fined.
I understand your rationale, Bring_Back_Shantz. Indeed, it sounds even somewhat silly to myself, and a truly trivial issue to base my voting decision on. But this is important to me. I do not believe in paying twice for the same product. I believe in my right to do to my purchased media, gadgets, and gizmo's what I bloody well want to do. And when a big corporation that develops these things I've purchased has an issue with me doing so, and wants to have me subsequently prosecuted, I take exception to that as a consumer. But their lobbyists are making a strong campaign for consumer reform, to the point where I'm afraid that if they go unchallenged, our descendants will one day grow up thinking that paying twice for the same product is the norm. Commonplace.
Bill C-32's bread and butter is actually pretty sound, but it's that supid circumvention clause that ruins it. It has to be removed, and then I will be satisfied.