When the Conservative government falls Friday, many pieces of legislation will fall along with it, including a number of the government bills that had been revived after succumbing to previous elections and prorogations.
To spare some of the high-priority bills, the government has pushed 10 agenda items through the Senate, including a bill that will end the faint-hope clause that gives early parole to convicts serving life terms. But others will not survive.
Those include Bill C-32, the act to amend Canada’s copyright laws which is in its third incarnation and would legalize activities commonly engaged in by thousands of Canadians – such as copying a CD – but which would prohibit breaking digital locks placed on gadgets and media. It aims to provide fairness for the creative community in a day of iPods and easy downloads. [/p]
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yep no more worrying about jailbreaking your idevices because for now we are a-OK
Though the bill will probably come back up again I would suspect it to be rewritten after the outcry of Canadian users who want to use their devices to their full potential
To spare some of the high-priority bills, the government has pushed 10 agenda items through the Senate, including a bill that will end the faint-hope clause that gives early parole to convicts serving life terms. But others will not survive.
Those include Bill C-32, the act to amend Canada’s copyright laws which is in its third incarnation and would legalize activities commonly engaged in by thousands of Canadians – such as copying a CD – but which would prohibit breaking digital locks placed on gadgets and media. It aims to provide fairness for the creative community in a day of iPods and easy downloads. [/p]
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yep no more worrying about jailbreaking your idevices because for now we are a-OK
Though the bill will probably come back up again I would suspect it to be rewritten after the outcry of Canadian users who want to use their devices to their full potential
