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Canadian DMCA Tabled - File-sharers Could Get Fined $500 Per Infringement

By DrewWilson

It was one of the much anticipated and much feared bills for digital rights activists. Now, at the last possible moment in the session of parliament, activists worst fears were realized as Jim Prentice tabled Bill C-61 which is dubbed 'The Canadian DMCA' The Canadian DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) got its name out of fears that the new copyright bill, which would amend the copyright act, would be modeled after the DMCA in the United States. The DMCA is very frequently pointed at for allowing the Recording Music Industry Association of America to sue thousands of American citizens and threaten thousands of college students for alleged copyright infringement. Bill C-61 was tabled today and, as the nickname suggests, is modeled after the American DMCA. One of the major criticisms for the DMCA in Canada was the fact that the person who created the DMCA said that the DMCA was a failure.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).