My Site - Canada's DMCA: understanding the "digital locks" provision http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=49961 Canada's version of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act has been introduced, and while it offers a host of promises about consumer rights (such as the right to record a TV show with a PVR or rip a CD and put the music on your computer), it also allows rightsholders to confiscate those rights merely by adding a "digital lock" (also known as DRM) to the work. Breaking these locks is illegal in i... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:23:40 PDT en