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I am a Canadian software engineer working in Vancouver, B.C. I am concerned that your commission is designed to invent new ways to reduce the rights of Canadians and to make reasonable activities illegal. Why?
In general, I am concerned that your new copyright proposals are intended to provide legal means for media corporations (these are the people that would be enforcing these laws — see DMCA experience in the U.S.) to reduce my rights and to permit new legal avenues for those corporations to pursue compliance with their dictated terms of service.
I see your new proposals as being designed to re-assert copyright rules (which I am ok with), but to add new "anti-circumvention" rules (which I am not). To be clear, I think we should continue to have copyright, but I believe the "anti-circumvention" are draconian and reduce the rights of law abiding Canadians.
Consider these three questions: Why can't I copy something I have purchased? Why can't I modify something I have purchased? Why can't I research how to copy something?
Are you inventing three new ways for me to break the law?
