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BattleGoat Chief Not Enamored with Canadian Copyright Bill

By pete_gallagher

BattleGoat Studios co-founder and co-owner George Geczy has called Canada's newly proposed copyright bill (C-32) 'unacceptable and entirely unbalanced.'

Specifically, Geczy takes issue with the digital rights management section of the Bill, and is strongly in favor of allowing consumers to break digital locks in order to make a back up, or to unlock content from companies that may have gone out of business or had their copyright expire.

In a letter on the subject, as reported by CBC News, Geczy stated, 'While nobody would question the cultural significance and imperative for preservation of a Shakespeare play or Beethoven symphony, cultural media in the past decades has suffered significant content losses when commercial entities do not see a financial benefit in preservation."
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 07, 2010 (boomark / email).