What Ottawa’s new copyright laws will mean for Canadians

It's unrealistically dumb.

People should get prosecuted for uploading the file NOT downloading the file. People download stuff because they are already AVAILABLE. Who made it available? The UPLOADER. I am sure the uploader has an IP address too.

If all of a sudden a beautiful girl gets naked in a public park, would the government arrest everybody who look at her? Isn't it easier just to arrest her instead? Duh.

and it is now the time to learn how to rerouted the isp.

Hav u noticed that they, a tv service, is slowly n steadily making it impossible for u to record movies from the movie channels .. for our own personal use... which we all pay to view every month.. If you go to their site; they say it is copyright laws but.... if you purchase their PVR, you can copy them... quite a monopoly on recorders.. It won t be long b4 we will be unable to copy our fav half hour programs...

The digital lock provision sucks. Harper doesn't know what he is doing.

What's the difference between recording a movie on a PVR and skipping over the commercials while watching it, vs. downloading it from a torrent?

If I record Transformer #1 from TV it legal, But if I record Transformer #1 from a DVD, it's Illegal ! Harper, Lost My Vote !

So basically, it is essentially illegal to push the record button.

Why is it always the consumer that gets punished. The companies that manufacture and develop the devices that make copying possible, are free to sell them to the public, but we are not supposed to use them for that purpose.

DRM (those ''locks'') are what's pissing the consumers off. No one is gonna be happy if they spent $50 on a DVD just to find out it's DRM'd so that it wont work on the computer/DVD player. The alternative would be to just stream it off the internet (streaming isnt really downloading) or go to some store that sells it for $5.

The idiotic, greedy, ancient copyright holders should just innovate instead of manipulating the governments and bills to sue a 80yo grandma for thousands.

Why don't they make laws to protect us from Spam, Telemarketing and Politicians?

yeah so canada, dont buy crap from corporations, i am sick of the 'cost of business'being passed onto the consumer, right down to the penny, corporations are sheer profit now it seems, they wont buy a stamp unless the cost is passed onto the consumer, i purchase almost nothing these days due to taxes etc.. go on craigslist buy from each other and filter what you really need as opposed to gotta have.. my money is building in my account big time, not companies, i am saving big bucks buy determining what i really need in my life, and without pain.

once we buy something we should be able to use it any way we chose to. making a back up or placing it on other person devices.

Ok, let me see if I got this STRAIGHT. Production Co's. pay actor/ess's mega millions to star in a movie. I buy the movie for $35.00 to $95.00 for my family's entertainment and I can't copy/burn a copy for say a son or daughter in another province/state. If I buy a movie it's mine. I can do what I want with it as long as I don't reap $$cash/rewards$$ from it. Ok, I think I've got it understood, lol. Well you Producer's keep paying your star actor/ess's mega millions and I'll keep burning/coping. Communism is coming Canada...

First the cap on our bandwidth, now this? What's next? Paying for how long we use our phones for? CHRISTS SAKE!

This legislation is as pointless as the current copyright law. Technically, under the current law you are not even allowed to PVR TV shows, and the maximum fine is $20,000. This bill just contains a pile of new nonsensical laws that won't change a thing that customers are doing, but at least they capped the fine at $5000.

What a stupid law they gonna let Canadian ISP providers give ur IP to american copyright enforcers so they can make money of our back. in other words the Harper government bent over to an American request in our expense and they make the law look sweet with the claims that they gonna create more jobs its a load of u know what. if studios and record company's think they are losing money for downloads then charge ISP provider a certain fee per user and they will get richer and then we can download as much as we want again its a win win.

Our government is a hypocritical entity. They don't want people to download a movie illegally but since they are in cohoots with big cable corporations services like Netflix which are great in the US are crippled here because our laws prevent them from have having the content and new releases that are available in the US. With no video stores to rent new blu rays or dvds, we are left with having to buy any every new release we may want to watch which is ridiculous. Most new releases are garbage but possibly worth a rent. I don't feel like having to pay 30-40 dollars for each movie I want to watch one time or may hate. I understand that the rich people in the conservative government can afford to do that but most of us normal people can't. I don't see the point of buying expensive HD televisions, sound systems and blu ray players only to be forced to watch crappy compressed video with low quality 192kb sound. It's seems funny that everyone goes crazy to buy the latest in picture and sound quality components yet also eagerly accepts horrible compressed mp3 music and compressed streaming video and sound instead of CDs and BluRays. People are so stupid and easily duped be salespeople it's hilarious. Personally if it isn't full quality music from a CD or full quality sound and picture from a DVD or BluRay I don't want it. the low quality options defeat the purpose of buying expensive advanced equipment.

Those who voted for him will now see the truth of what he is all about. A CHEATER USING THE LAW TO HELP CHEAT US CANADIANS OUT OF OUR HARD EARNED MONEY.

Maybe if they created JOBS for people so they could WORK and afford to pay $20 for an album that only had 2 or 3 good songs on it.....go to concerts which cost $100 (or more) per ticket, and get fleeced for a bottle of water which costs $4 at such a venue....then everyone would be happy....no it's just more greed....rich getting richer and poor getting poorer...not just financially, but artistically and educationally too....that must be the REAL goal. Such mind-fookers when you really stop and think about the games and scams....ban MP3 players altogether...get rid of blackberries and every other electronic device out there...(I can only imagine the withdrawal symptoms) and put a shovel in people's hands and teach them to farm the land again. It will be a win/win for all and the fat cats will self-implode.

is it just me or is everyone else sick and tired of the CANADIAN GOVERNMENT micro managing our lives?