Vive la resistance

This week the Canadian government is releasing the latest version of a new copyright law. Designed to combat digital piracy, users across the web are already firmly opposed.

Some compare it to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

But the stipulations are supposedly far more restrictive than their US counterpart, with strong anti-circumvention legislation, no fair use provision, and restrictions to access to government data.

Geist, who writes a blog covering the issue, also published a YouTube video detailing 30 ways people can protest the new law. Geist also set up a Facebook group that is already 10,000 strong.

Other influencers have joined the resistance.

Critiquing the law's Stateside inspiration, Boing Boing co-founder Cory Doctorow says the US approach does not limit piracy and has only resulted in "20,000 lawsuits against music fans, tech companies being sued out of existence for making new multi-purpose tools, and has not put one penny into the pocket of an artist."