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Copyright groups around the world are feeling more and more confident, and their arrogance may be starting to show.
The Canadian government is currently having public consultations, town hall meetings, on how to make copyright laws fairer. But copyright lobbyists have called the meetings "useless", in an attempt to discredit the process, which has led to calls for fairer and more balanced copyright laws.
In the latest town hall meeting, the copyright lobby tried to stack the meeting in their favour, by introducing at a lottery system for granting permission to speak at the meeting. The Canadian Federation of Students, who is in favour of fairer copyright laws, attempted to protest this last minute change by distributing flyers outside the even, but were threatened with arrest by private security guards hired to protect the stage managed event. A Canadian member of parliament, a member of the NDP party, was also present and helped to hand out flyers, but she has since come under attack by a group calling themselves "The American Federation of Musicians", calling her and fellow student's actions, which involved only handing out flyers at a public town hall meeting, "disgusting".
With calls for Internet bannings without trial, total loss of personal privacy by making ISPs spy for copyright groups, and now attacking students and politicians for getting their views heard, has the copyright lobby grown so powerful, that they've now become a threat to the very foundations of democracy and the democratic process?
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The Canadian government is currently having public consultations, town hall meetings, on how to make copyright laws fairer. But copyright lobbyists have called the meetings "useless", in an attempt to discredit the process, which has led to calls for fairer and more balanced copyright laws.
In the latest town hall meeting, the copyright lobby tried to stack the meeting in their favour, by introducing at a lottery system for granting permission to speak at the meeting. The Canadian Federation of Students, who is in favour of fairer copyright laws, attempted to protest this last minute change by distributing flyers outside the even, but were threatened with arrest by private security guards hired to protect the stage managed event. A Canadian member of parliament, a member of the NDP party, was also present and helped to hand out flyers, but she has since come under attack by a group calling themselves "The American Federation of Musicians", calling her and fellow student's actions, which involved only handing out flyers at a public town hall meeting, "disgusting".
With calls for Internet bannings without trial, total loss of personal privacy by making ISPs spy for copyright groups, and now attacking students and politicians for getting their views heard, has the copyright lobby grown so powerful, that they've now become a threat to the very foundations of democracy and the democratic process?
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