On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aklists@mixdown.ca">aklists@mixdown.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Saturday, June 05, 2010 12:28:49 am unsolicited wrote:<br>
> But it does have the business of facilitating the enforcement of<br>
> copyright that is being violated.<br>
><br>
> Please don't obfuscate. We are all agreed that digital locks would<br>
> diminish the current copyright rights for making a backup, and that<br>
> that's unacceptable. Making the backup is fair use. Nothing to do with<br>
> profit.<br>
<br>
</div>Format shifting is also fair use. Being able to watch it on a DVD player of my<br>
own making is also fair use.<br>
<br>
We already have copyright law. We don't need digital locks to enforce it, and<br>
we also don't need to allow <content attribute="copyable" value="protected"/><br>
to be a valid lock!<br>
<br>
The digital lock provisions in this bill take away our fair use rights granted<br>
by Canadian copyright law. This is wholly unacceptable.<br></blockquote><div><br>Good point.<br><br>To add to that ...<br><br>Analogy time: learning how to do lock picking is (as far as I know) not a crime.<br>Using it to pick locks in your possession is not a crime. Using it to pick locks<br>
for your friends is not a crime either.<br><br>What is a crime is picking a lock to gain entry to a property that is not yours.<br></div></div><br clear="all">So, again, criminal intent is what matters, not just breaking a lock in and of<br>
itself.<br><br>The same should apply to DVDs, DRM, ...etc. Merely breaking a lock should<br>not be a crime. Breaking it to resell such stuff should be.<br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>
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