RE: canada-dmca-opponents-digest V1 #46

From: "Chris Brand" <Chris_Brand _-at-_ spectrumsignal.com>
To: <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.ca>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:56:23 -0800

> I have friends who are planning to attend the Vancouver one, which is next
> (on March 15); with a little luck we'll get some information from that as
> to what to expect.  I sent in my own registration on the 3rd; haven't
> heard anything back.  I said that I could attend the Toronto or Ottawa
> meetings, in that order of preference, and would attend both if space
> allowed.

I only found how to register through slashdot, despite having sent in both comments and "comments on comments". Sent my registration request in recently for Vancouver (I can't travel anywhere else). Haven't heard anything back yet. I presume that we'll get some sort of confirmation ?

If somebody could let me know when they get confirmation for Vancouver, that would be great.

I like the various "contradictory laws" arguments. One possible outcome of this proposal is that copyright law could become self-contradictory - I could write a program to defeat some DRM. This program would be protected by copyright (i.e. copyright law encourages this creativity) and yet at the same time illegal under copyright law (because it can be used to defeat DRM). I believe that copyright law doesn't currently contain any disincentives for creativity - is this correct ?

Thanks,

Chris
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