It is a useless exercise for the Parliament, Courts, and RCMP, to do anything.

The Chief UK scientist announces catastrophy in the next 20 years from a 9 billion population, and needs for food, water, and energy, unless governments boldly prepare.

Worrying about copyright file-sharing is useless, among other reasons, because

the files are already out there and are easily updated at local libraries,

500 gigabite digital storage drives, the size of a deck of cards, sell for about $100,

each holds somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 tracks of music, for most people, more than a lifetime's worth,

these collections are very easily shared without the internet,
and are shared like a reverse pyramid club.

Double one fifty times and i think you have more than the # of atoms in the universe.

These pocket collections are perfectly legal even in the U.S.

Unless police search for them, there is no way to prevent anyone who wants a copy to have it.

In the USA they have had anti-circumvention legislation (DMCA) on the books for over a decade. In that time we have seen a shift away from DRM. DRM-free music can be bought from Apple iTunes and Amazon MP3. Not only is the DMCA having chilling effects on innovation, it is becoming irrelevant has consumers realize they don't want DRM. The DMCA has not stood the test of time. Anti-circumvention legislation in Canada would not even stand the test of today, nevermind the test of time.

Comme dans tout si je suis lacheteur de la Mona lisa tout les droit me revienne de vendre des copies si jen ai envie. Si je suis acheteur dune copie du proprietaire de loriginale jai tout les droit de copier ma copie pour usage personel car jai deja acheter mon droit.

En chine tout a le droit d'etre copier le pays a avancer sans depenser aucun dollard en R&D , mais bon le contraire est aussi valide , linventeur du AK-47 nas jamais recu 1$ pour son invention ( qui est l'arme la plus utiliser dans le monde ) moi je dit que a la vitesse que lon developpe et pour engager la competition couper sur le gaspillage et sortir les 100 aine d anne de R&D deja developer changon le copyright pour 10ans de droit d'exploitation de la technologie ensuite sa devrait appartenir a l'humanite au complet.

Et tout faire pour etre sur de guarder Internet de dehor du control des corporations , deja que nous feson pitier comparer au pays d asie avec leur fibre optiques dans chaque appartement dla ville les corporation ne devrait pas avoir le droit de reduire la bande passante si on va lire du texte chez des competiteurs , sa serait leequivalent davoir une rue appartenant a une corporation et davoir un embouteillage assurer sur le chemin dun competiteur , quel gaspillage .....

Le gouvernement du Canada doit permettre les copies de sauvegarde pour tous types de contenu numériques, comme les données, pas uniquement les logiciels comme c'est actuellement le cas.

Our Government must look at the situation realistically in order to stand the test of time. If the government cannot accomplish this, then we'll be in an endless cycle of reform. A complete ban of DRM is needed. It has been largely rejected by the market, and implementing laws of fair use or protecting DRM locks will give creators a false sense of security. You cannot enforce laws around DRM. It will be impossible to prove Bob in his basement broke the digital locks for whatever purpose in a court of law.

End the private copy regime. How many times do Canadians have to pay for content, and what technologies will we have to implement this in the future, and reform AGAIN?

It's time that industry gets comfortable with the term "market" instead of "thieves" or "pirates" with respect to P2P downloading. This is where some of the market has chosen to go, and for many industries, it is a part of their business model and helping to push forward income in other area's by providing exposure to product, whether they like it or not.

http://www.dime-eu.org/node/477#comment-1

We need to monetize this network for the benefit of creators and industry. It's part of the digital economy. If we harm these networks or reduce their usefulness, than we can potential cause further damage to these industries and to those that have chosen to adapt their models around these networks. That damage could be a lot more significant to industry other than the obvious lost sale, due to area's in which we are seeing a shift in income. The rights of creators who've made the choice, and invested in money to adapt to these networks must also be respected!

Put forth massive restrictions on Governments time on those that refuse to follow the market in the future. In a free market environment, let those who can't adapt die off, and those that have adapted rise and create new opportunities through innovation. Let industry sort itself out. We should assist in insuring laws can adapt quickly and properly to new innovations and business models to help offset the destructive process we are seeing.