Canadian government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites
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#2You must be joking. It will take about 5 minutes for technology to render this obsolete. Authoritarians always use innocuous sounding reasons to implement censorship. It starts with pirates, then onto dissenters.
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#3How does one get from
> The Government of Canada Launches Consultation on a Modern Copyright Framework for Online Intermediaries
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> Canadian government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites
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Re: Canadian government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites
#4You must be joking. It will take about 5 minutes for technology to render this obsolete. Authoritarians always use innocuous sounding reasons to implement censorship. It starts with pirates, then onto dissenters.
Or this is just another scam to hand out a big $ contract to some IT consultant to implement this.
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#5None of this documnent proposes anything other than an RFP for input on how Canadian content and north american copyright may be addressed. Companies or individuals will likely propose blocking but this is a far cry from even any drafted legislation.
The worrying part is bundling canadian content rules along intermediary access to potentially copyright infringing material. That part is peculiar, seeing as theyre totally separate concepts. Hopefully its not just a way of suggesting defending disneys copyright on 100 year old cartoons is equal to having 25% of the song played on FM radio be “canadian”
Re: Canadian government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites
#6How does one get from > The Government of Canada Launches Consultation on a Modern Copyright Framework for Online Intermediaries to > Canadian government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites ?
Frankly, it's been long suggested by the government to do that. I would not be surprised if they did as well.
In Canada, our freedom of expression is limited by whatever the Government deems appropriate:
> Freedom of expression in Canada is protected as a "fundamental freedom" by Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Charter also permits the government to enforce "reasonable" limits.
Unfortunately, there is not much guidelines these days on what "reasonable" is considered. I like to hope it would not be abused...
Re: Canadian government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites
#7You must be joking. It will take about 5 minutes for technology to render this obsolete. Authoritarians always use innocuous sounding reasons to implement censorship. It starts with pirates, then onto dissenters.
100% correct. This at best will only stop casual and inadvertent clicks to piracy sites.
And harder yet is to define piracy itself - Should the Canadian government be protecting copyright not under its purview? How about US copyright? Or European? What about Chinese copyright? Will the Canadian government protect from corporate pirates that pirate the Linux kernel for use in hardware where they do not release source under GPL terms? (Likely not)
And all of their blocking measures cannot stop at "Stop piracy". We see what happens in schools - all blocking engines ALSO have to block VPN, Proxy, Tor, and "proxy avoidance" to even approach effectiveness... And those also are easy to bypass.
Usually, what these kinds of laws are for are as a "feel good", and for shoveling money to someone's pet company for a lackluster "blocking" solution.
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#8Where does the article mention a website-blocking system? I'm curious as to the technical details. I'm sure it'll work this time.
"For Canada to have an innovative and flourishing digital economy, we must protect copyright online"
Hrmph. Citation required.
Anyway, I'm not sure why businesses are so concerned about copyright still. Maybe this is specific to Canada? But country-specific things aside:
* The DMCA already makes it easy enough to keep things like KickAssTorrents offline, which was honestly the closest I've seen to a good tracker going mainstream.
* Steam has already shown how to "best" piracy to the extent that a business can. It's not via copyright laws. Everyone thought rampant piracy would mean Steam won't work in Russia. That aged well.
* Actually combating piracy on a technical level suffers greatly from the 80/20 rule. You can eliminate 80% of the piracy with 20% of the effort. But getting that last 20% is going to take 1000% of the remaining 80% of the work. (Sorry, yes, that was an attempt at a joke). It's basically not going to happen. Look at how well things like optical media DRM have gone. Look at how streaming DRM is going. Look at how hard it is for even *China* to stop its people from accessing free information online, much less normal countries with normal amounts of human rights abuses stop people from getting downloads of whatever Disney's latest remake is.
Dunno. As much as I hate copyright, and as much as I love free culture, it's hard for me to get too interested or worried about stuff like this nowadays, from a legal realism standpoint.
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#9You must be joking. It will take about 5 minutes for technology to render this obsolete. Authoritarians always use innocuous sounding reasons to implement censorship. It starts with pirates, then onto dissenters.
Except that nothing has been proposed here. This is a RFP.
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