Cory Doctorow on Nostr: So in 2012, we copied America's terrible digital locks law into the Canadian statute ...
So in 2012, we copied America's terrible digital locks law into the Canadian statute book, and now we live in James Moore and Tony Clement's world, where it is illegal to tamper with a digital lock. So if a company puts a digital lock on its product they can do *anything* behind that lock, and it's a crime to undo it.
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