Minister pushing "Canadian DMCA" smears opponents

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Submission + - Minister pushing "Canadian DMCA" smears opponents (www.cbc.ca) 1

Submitted by mdemeny on Thursday June 24, 2010 @02:03AM

mdemeny writes: MP James Moore, responsible for submitting Bill C-32, essentially the Canadian DMCA, complete with legal protection for DRM has managed to smear all opponents of the bill as "radical extremists". Of course, this includes a pretty large list of people: consumer groups, retail groups, electronics vendors, the disabled, librarians, content creators, etc. etc.

More at Michael Geist as well... http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5139/125/

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