Ottawa gets tough with illegal downloaders

[JT]

Canadians caught downloading illegal copies of music and movies online could be slapped with a penalty of $500 under new federal copyright legislation to overhaul the Copyright Act of Canada. The act was last updated in 1997, four years before the introduction of the iPod.
"All Canadians should be worried. The digital lock provisions, which are really the core of this legislation, are in many ways worse than the U.S. [laws]."

The Conservatives' bill, however, also contains an anti-circumvention clause that will make it illegal to break digital locks on copyrighted material, which critics say could trump all of the new allowances. CD and DVD makers could put copy protections on their discs, or television networks could attach technological flags to programs that would prevent them from being recorded onto TiVos and other personal video recorders.
Cellphones would also be locked down, so when consumers buy a device from one carrier, they would be unable to use it with another. Breaking any of these locks could result in lawsuits seeking up to $20,000 in damages.

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