As for book copying, don’t you spend all your days scanning your personal library… page by page. I know I do. If you haven’t guessed, I upload pieces of public domain literature to the Rip-a-Tome network (RAT). Elite bibliophilic pirates, like myself, take pride in hoarding lossless or vector image format books (RAW, SVG, etc.) as a means to subvert the authority of large publishing houses and to plagiarise written works for leisure.

Crack that code, Dan Brown.

My favourite part is the bit about how you can now copy books — but only one per device, and you can’t give the copies away. Just copy them for your personal use. Just how you’re supposed to get a book onto your computer, and what you’re supposed to do with it once it’s there is a mystery to me.

I’m with Scott Brison on this one: it’s half-baked.

The annoying part for me is that the media industries are responsible for their most damaging errors, those being internal leaks, and the public sector is forced to legislate for the industries’ own ineptitude. Bill C-61 should be called “Media Outlets as Anachronism”.

… I can’t even be articulate about this topic because it the stupidity and greed of it makes me so SO angry. I just spunter and jab at the air with my fist trying to express just about retarded these kinds of restrictions are. GRRRR

Was it illegal? It was pirated material. It was being distributed without explicit permission from the copyright holder. And yet the artists themselves wanted their fans to have a taste of their new album, and shouldn’t the artists and creators ultimately have the last word? Bidini knew that if we paid to come see their show, we’d likely pay for the CD, too, if we could afford it, or at least we’d pass the tracks on to a dozen friends, one of whom might buy an album or two or come to their next show.

If Dave Bidini knew this back in the day when piracy was only just edging onto our cultural radar, why hasn’t the rest of the world caught up yet?