Canadian Copywrite Reform

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"Copyright owner rhetoric aside, it is unfortunate that we are also unlikely to see many people actually referring to statistical evidence to support their claims that copyright reform is desperately needed."

It is unfortunate, but that is what happens when you have special interest groups. They're only interested in furthering their cause, and we all know that statistics can be made to say whatever you want them to say.
It looks like this new law is going to take us closer to the American style of copywrite protection (whatever the special interest groups want, forget about the consumers). As is stated in the above post, was there really a need to reform copywrite law here, only if you are the recording industry who will now have all of the things they didn't get the first time around.
Don't get me wrong, I support copywrite as appropriate and with fair use. Illegal file sharing etc is exactly that; illegal. The big problem is that we're slowly losing that fair use and pretty soon we'll only have "fair-to-the-CRIA" use.