Douchebaggery afoot
Jim Prentice, the Minister of Industry, has decided to become a lapdog of the recording industry by proposing a new DMCA bill, worse than the American one if you can believe it. This would make copying a song from a CD you bought onto your MP3 player to listen to completely illegal. You can’t even make a backup of it. It pretty much throws fair use straight out of the window. I’m not entirely sure how Prentice expects this to pass in a minority government with so much public outcry over it. He’s already tried to pass this through before and failed, trying to bypass public consultation then too. Michael Geist is a law professor that explained all the fancy legalese into plain English.
To end on a less negative note, I wish could happen at my office. It would be all kinds of awesome.
June 21st, 2008 at 7:09 am
Hahahahha…as Peter Griffin puts it: an office nurf war is freakin’ sweeeeeeet =)