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Anti-circumvention  
Written by Brogar the 29 Jul 09 at 16:55. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
Technological protection measures have been around for an awfully long time and are likely going to stick around.

How should Canada address these digital locks and the circumvention of them in the new act?
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Solution #1: Allow Circumvention
Written by Brogar the 29 Jul 09 at 16:55.
Allowing the circumvention of digital locks in certain situations including research, education, and rightful ownership makes sense.
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Solution #2: Solution #2: Bill C-60 Approach
Written by DFewer the 5 Aug 09 at 15:37.
Solution #1 is consistent with both C-60 and the DMCA approach. The problem with picking certain activities that are permitted to avoid a digital lock is that you replicate the work already done in the Copyright Act: we've already identified socially useful activities that do not infringe copyright. Why replicate that task in anti-circumvention?

This suggests that we adopt the C-60 approach - no liability for circumvention if done for a non-infringing purpose.

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Need an End Product  
Written by Brogar the 27 Jul 09 at 16:18. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
The end product of these discussions should be decided early. Are we going to submit a proposal? A model act? A policy paper? A cartoon?
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Solution #1: Policy Paper
Written by Brogar the 27 Jul 09 at 16:18.
We could submit a simple policy paper outlining all of the topics they asked that we cover and the ideas and solutions that were proposed here.
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Solution #2: Model Copyright Act
Written by Brogar the 27 Jul 09 at 16:58.
We might submit an actual act. This would be a significant amount of work and it much less accessible to non-law types.
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Solution #3: Report of ideastorm issues/solutions if there's a wide range of opinions
Written by kaplanmyrth the 14 Aug 09 at 16:17.
If this site gets a wide range of opinions that makes it hard to distill into a single policy vision, then it may still be useful to submit the results of this ideastorm as a report or even a dataset for further analysis.

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Litigation doesn't change the behaviour  
Written by KickingRaven the 14 Aug 09 at 19:01. Global category: Copyright Consultation. New
People file share. There is little empathy for the companies who say they are losing vast sums of revenue due to it. Litigation of ordinary citizens for vast sums of money in damages does nothing to change the apathy, if anything it causes a greater degree of it. The data that companies use to demonstrate that file sharing hurts them is flawed. People want to share, it is in our nature.
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Solution #1: Don't make it illegal
Written by KickingRaven the 14 Aug 09 at 19:01.
If the attitude towards file sharing could be changed to a more positive one then there are monetization opportunities. As an example, if a person shares content with people and that results in a sale then the sharer would receive some form of compensation, say credits via a redeemable code that the purchaser enters. Change the perception of the activity and recognize the potential benefits the change can represent.
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Solution #2: Legal copyright protections that encourage monetization
Written by Tamir the 17 Aug 09 at 23:57.
Along with an attitude shift, maybe it would be useful to produce some form of legislative incentives in the coming copyright bill that would encourage content creators to develop monetization schemes?

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Poor broadband situation in Canada  
Written by robertg69 the 16 Oct 09 at 14:44. Global category: Network Neutrality. New
Here is an excerpt from CBC.ca":

Canadian broadband blasted by Harvard study
Last Updated: Thursday, October 15, 2009 | 5:38 PM ET Comments212Recommend363
By Peter Nowak, CBC News
Canada rates poorly in a Harvard study that measures adoption, capacity and prices. (IStock)
Canada has some of the poorest high-speed internet service in the developed world and is an example of what not to do from a policy perspective, according to a study by Harvard University.

The 232-page study, commissioned by American regulators and released Wednesday evening, found that Canada rates poorly compared to peer countries when measures such as national broadband adoption, network capacity and prices are taken into account.

Canada was 22nd overall out of 30 countries surveyed by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Canada ranked 16th on broadband adoption, 20th on speed and capacity, and 25th on price. Japan, Sweden and South Korea headed up Harvard's rankings, while the United States placed above Canada at 13th overall.
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Solution #1: Start a ISP coops across Canada
Written by robertg69 the 16 Oct 09 at 14:44.
Since the major Internet providers are the cause of this deplorable situation and since they have little profit incentive to change it, we need a Public Option. The govt wont do it so we Internauts must find a way to intervene by providing low cost high performance competition to the Internet private sector.
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Solution #2: Better Laws or Regulations Ensuring Open, Undiscriminatory Networks
Written by rob.veldpaus the 30 Oct 09 at 12:32.
Tamir Wrote:
Another solution altogether would involve putting in place better laws or regulations ensuring open, undiscriminatory networks, as the US FCC and house of representatives is now beginning to do. This would push ISPs to invest more in their networks, leading to greater infrastructure for everyone. It would also allow for more competitive pressures on incumbents as it would allow smaller ISPs (and potential coops) to differentiate their services more.

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