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New Bill Treats Users Differently And With Discrimination

Ottawa-The newest bill to address the copyright situation in Canada is causing quite a stir and controversy across the Nation.

Users that have been used to downloading music and videos for fair usage from the Internet would be prevented in many cases from doing so.

The simple act of downloading certain music songs or selections and putting them on your iPod would put many Canadian citizens in violation of the new digital copyright law, bill C61, that is being debated in the national government and by the entire Canadian Nation.

Different members of the Canadian public and consumer organizations feel differently about the bill, but there is one thing that is certain: the usage of music and content downloaded from the Internet is undergoing a large amount of change.

Fair use of music and content according to the new law will be changed, and some of the access and ability to download that has been available will not be around any longer.

There is a lot of pressure from music corporations and artists for better copyright protection, but many in the public feel that the digital copyright bill is simply an effort to please the United States, and has little to do with protecting the individual artists and musicians, and others that produce different music and content on the Internet.