The government is still trying to take away your iPod!
Well not really they are just trying to make it shittier to use while still allowing device shifting (think CD to iTunes to iPod) and time shifting devices like TiVo and PVR. However, if you purchase a CD with digital rights management on it and you circumvent that you are breaking the law.
Personally I think iTunes and iPods are shitty anyway. Well designed, but shitty because I can’t have more than one “authorized” computer. I can’t hook up my work iTunes and my home iTunes without one deleting the other. And don’t even think about sharing with a friend.
Word on the street is that Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice is about to try to shove the Canadian version of the US’s failed Digital Millennium Copyright Act through Parliament very soon, and very fast. He made plans to do this before, and the overwhelming public outcry caused him to shelve them, but now he figures we’re all distracted and we’ll let him get away with it.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2942/125/
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/20/urgent-canadian-dmca.html
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
It only takes a few seconds to send an email to Prentice, the Prime Minister, and your local MP, letting them know that Canadians won’t be deceived by a Canadian DMCA and that Canadian copyright reform should reflect fair copyright principles (and after you click send, print out the email and drop it in the mail without a stamp to House of Commons, Ottawa, ON, K1A0A6).
The good news is that the industry bullies don’t always win.