Camcording Bill gets fast tracked
Bill C-59, a bill that shores up anti-camcording legislation in canada by imposing jail time for recording a movie in a theatre (doubles it if one can prove an intent to distribute), was fasttracked and passed yesterday. Michael Geist has written a lot on this topic in the past; the main concerns are the way this bill was pushed (increasing media articles that were essentially press releases from the MPAA, with what appear to be unsupported and inconsistent statistics; lobby pressure from the Governator et al); questioning the necessity of this bill (there already were other laws to address this), and whether it will be effective (the US has harsher laws already and it has not made a difference in their camcording rates).
It seems the NDP were the only ones who even cared to ask those questions as this bill made its way through the halls of our government.
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