Saturday, June 14, 2008

The Copyright Protest Surge

via Michael Geist;

In the roughly 36 hours since the Canadian DMCA was introduced, the outrage from thousands of Canadians has been nothing short of remarkable. The CBC has picked up on the story, reporting on the surge in online protests that include approximately 10,000 new members of the Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook group (nearly 50,000 members as of this writing), over 4,000 letters and emails sent through Copyright for Canadians, hundreds of comments on articles in the mainstream press (and this blog), and a huge number of individual blog posts.

My sense is that the government still doesn't quite get it...


They never do, and won't in this day and age as they are unused to protest, having turned most into sheep with tv and condos.

Read more here.

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