Bad News From Canada On NetTV And Media Levies

twilight30 writes "Canadian regulators ruled Friday that it is illegal to put broadcast TV signals onto the Internet without permission, dashing the hopes of entrepreneurs hoping to create new Net TV businesses. An alternate link to the original at CNet is here." And Dr Caleb writes "In response to this Slashdot story I emailed my Member of Parlament. He responded to me today to say that "Despite strong opposition by the Canadian Alliance to these and other aspects of the bill, the Minister of Canadian Heritage won the day and Bill C-32 Copyright Legislation is now law." And further to say "The law assumes guilt that everyone who buys a blank tape or CD is pirating music - but anyone who uses CDs for data storage, for instance, knows that's not true!" Distressing that the bill has passed, but refreshing that my MP 'gets it'!"

Re:Blame Canada!

[Anonymous Coward]

They legalize weed but label everyone who buys CD-Rs a pirate?

In other news, Canada to make mushrooms legal and brightly colored pictures illegal. As well as ectasy legal, but both beds and glowsticks to be made illegal.

Tapes

[AlgebraicSpore]

What if you use tapes for data storage?
;-)

The really sad thing is...

[Guppy06]

"In response to this Slashdot story I emailed my Member of Parlament."

Canada is a bilingual country, which gives you two correct ways to spell the name of your legislature. That right there isn't either one of them.

In all seriousness, I hope you ran your e-mail through a spell-checker, at least if you expect your message to be taken seriously. In fact, you should probably splurge the $0.48 for a real letter.

Re:I'm not very hip

[Scud_the_disposable_]

Just as a point of interest, one of the names the alliance party was considering was "the Canadian Reform Alliance Party.

=)