“The Industry Minister’s press secretary has advised journalists that the bill will not be introduced today or tomorrow. Since the House of Commons will break at the end of the week, the Canadian DMCA will not be introduced until at least late January.” Link.
This sounds to me like the Minister is hoping to delay long enough so that the intense opposition to the bill will wane, get distracted, and forget about it.
Which isn’t going to happen. This is the internet. Not TV. Not newspapers. When this gets brought up again in January, as long as Cory makes a few posts on BoingBoing, everybody will wake up, again.
The mainstream press probably won’t talk about it again. They’ve done their stories, they’ll forget.
But a month or so from now, when this rears its ugly head again, the opposition will be as fierce as ever.
As Cory said earlier today, “this thing won’t die until we cut off its head, sew its mouth full of garlic, and bury its head at a crossroads.” And activists aren’t going to give up until that happens.
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