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What are your thoughts on Canada's latest amendments to the Copyright Act? (lemmy.ca)
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The federal government recently passed two bills into law, C-244 and C-294. These make it not a copyright violation to break or bypass a digital access control to software/hardware you ~~own~~ have legitimate access to, for the purposes of diagonstics/maintenance/repair, and interoperability respectively. Article from The Sarnia Observer

iFixit has applauded the move but says it still keeps bans on the sale and sharing of tools designed primarily for digital lock bypass.

What are your thoughts?

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[โ€“] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's not restricted to any industry which is good news.

[โ€“] Sundial@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago

So it's generic enough to set a precedent for other items/industries? That's good news. These kinds of things would help. I wish we take similar steps like the EU where they make it a law to simplify repairs and stating the life expectancy of certain products.