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Guidelines Preference is given to commenters who use real names. Stay on topic and be concise. Stimulate debate. Marginal note: Making child pornography 2 Every person who makes, prints, publishes or possesses for the purpose of publication any child pornography is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year.
Marginal note: Possession of child pornography 4 Every person who possesses any child pornography is guilty of a an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year; or b an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years less a day and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of six months.
Marginal note: Accessing child pornography 4. While those provisions sound attractive, Canadians would do well to read the fine print. The new rules are subject to a host of limitations — Canadians can't retain recorded programs and making backup copies of DVDs is not permitted — that lessen their attractiveness.
More worrisome are the "anti-circumvention provisions," which undermine not only these new consumer rights but also hold the prospect of locking Canadians out of their own digital content. The law creates a blanket prohibition on picking the digital locks often referred to as circumventing technological protection measures that frequently accompany consumer products such as CDs, DVDs and electronic books. In other words, Canadians who seek to circumvent those products — even if the Copyright Act permits their intended use — will now violate the law.
While this sounds technical, circumvention is not uncommon. Under the Prentice bill, transferring music from a copy-protected CD to an iPod could violate the law.
So, too, could efforts to play a region-coded DVD from a non-Canadian region or attempts by students to copy-and-paste content from some electronic books.
The bill includes a few limited circumvention exceptions for privacy, encryption research, interoperable computer programs and security. We typically don't have a culture in Canada for this kind of use of courts," Fewer said. For now, Canipre is the only Canadian firm providing this type of service. And it's proud of the work it does. The company advertises its ability to conduct "aggressive takedown campaigns" for clients.
It monitors websites where pirated content is known to be available, and it searches for its clients' content. When it finds violations, Canipre asks the hosting website to remove the content — a process known as a takedown request. But his company services don't just include suing people. He says there's an educational message, too.
The firm uploads a harmless file to sharing websites which closely resembles the content users are seeking. There is one key difference: This particular file is completely useless.
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