In 2011, the Canadian Conservative government rammed through Bill C-11, Canada’s answer to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in which the property rights of Canadians were gutted in order to ensure that corporations could use DRM to control how they used their property – like its US cousin, the Canadian law banned breaking DRM, even for legitimate purposes, like effecting repairs or using third party parts.
So it’s no surprise that all the bad stuff that Americans are having to deal with is also turning up in Canada.
In Canada, farmers are doing the same, with the same furtive shame, because Canada’s idiotic DRM law says that they must not break John Deere’s DRM, even at the cost of letting their crops rot in their fields.
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