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G&M: Ottawa To Make Cracking Digital Encryption Illegal

The Harper government is moving ahead with a controversial law that would spell out in much sharper detail what Canadians can and cannot do with digital copies of songs, movies and TV episodes.

Under the proposed regime, however, any digital locks that companies slap on this material - and others such as electronic books - will in most cases trump consumer rights to copy them.

Read the entire Globe and Mail article here.
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