Matthew Lasar, ArsTechnica.com; Caving to Washington? "Canadian DMCA" expected to pass:
"News accounts say that C-11 is an exact duplicate of Bill C-32, which croaked when the 2010 Parliament dissolved without passing the bill. Now, as then, one of the biggest points of contention will be the provisions regarding "digital locks." These add up to a Canadian version of the United States' Digital Millennium Copyright Act, with its DRM anti-circumvention provisions that make a variety of fair dealing (or fair use) activities untenable.
But critics of that portion of the legislation, such as Canadian law professor Michael Geist, suggest that this time around, the government will get its way."
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