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Stephen Downes

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This is not a partisan issue in Canada as the opposition Liberals were prepared to pass similar legislation. Rather, it is the usual 'power and money versus the people' issue. And the losers in this rush to a stringent copyright regime will very much be the Canadian people, as the established copyright owners are not domestic, as they are elsewhere, but foreign. Stringent copyright rules will not help the Canadian content industry, it will go a long way toward destroying it.

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