The Canadian government has tabled new copyright legislation that is similar in many ways to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If the intent is to stop online piracy, then it will fail. Intimidating-sounding fines like $20,000 for trying to get around copy protection on CDs might stop many people who would otherwise have done it. It might even stop 90% of these people. But, it only takes one person to break the protection and put a copy online for the world to have access. It will never be possible to stop every single person from breaking protections. Even if the best protection technology in the world is used on some music, somebody will buy the music legitimately, and then record it while it is playing and throw a copy on the internet. I’m not arguing that any of this is right, because it isn’t. I’m arguing that it is inevitable. This legislation will make criminals out of people who copy a CD to their iPods for personal use, but it won’t stop piracy. Laws and law enforcement...