[d@DCC] Bill C-2: another DMCA "devices" prohibition in disguise?

[Matthew Skala]

I found Bill C-2, recently proposed in Parliament, rather disquieting.
Links and discussion here:

   http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lw/?id=2004021001

It purports to be narrowly tailored to satellite television, but it looks
very much like the DMCA's "circumvention trafficking" provisions to me,
and it gives the Radio Inspectors a lot of new powers that look
worrisome.  Has anyone else on our side of the fence looked at this Bill
or its predecessor in detail?
-- 
Matthew Skala, CS PhD student, University of Waterloo
mskala at math.uwaterloo.ca  <-- school
mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca  <-- home
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/   http://www.edifyingfellowship.org/

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