{"id":3052,"date":"2012-05-24T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2012-05-24T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:23:34","slug":"on-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3052","title":{"rendered":"On copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just wrote an e-mail addressed to all Conservative members of Parliament:<\/p>\n

Members of Parliament, Honorable Ministers, Right Honorable Prime Minister:<\/em><\/p>\n

You are about to vote into law a Bill, C-11, that will declare me a criminal (a criminal!) were I to insert a DVD, legitimately purchased in my native Hungary, into my North American computer and watch it using appropriate software, as said software necessarily breaks a digital lock, namely the region code.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is my question: Why are you doing this to us Canadians?<\/em><\/p>\n

In what Orwellian universe does this serve the interests of our country? Or even, for that matter, those of the Walt Disney Corporation?<\/em><\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/em><\/p>\n

Viktor T. Toth <address and telephone number provided><\/em><\/p>\n

PS: I am a former Conservative voter. I am not a political activist (nor am I a “radical extremist”, Mr. Moore), and this desperate last-minute attempt to persuade you is done on my own initiative. Please, do not disrespect me by responding with a stock answer that is just generic propaganda in favor of Bill C-11. While I am quite prepared to receive no answer at all, if you do choose to reply, please address my question directly. Thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n

Needless to say, I don’t actually expect this e-mail to change anything.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just wrote an e-mail addressed to all Conservative members of Parliament: Members of Parliament, Honorable Ministers, Right Honorable Prime Minister: You are about to vote into law a Bill, C-11, that will declare me a criminal (a criminal!) were I to insert a DVD, legitimately purchased in my native Hungary, into my North American […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,43,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-intellectual-property","category-politics","category-22-id","category-43-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}