The Daily Digital Lock Dissenter, Day 2: Canadian Consumer Initiative

The Canadian Consumer Initiative brings together four of Canada's largest consumer advocacy groups: the Consumers Council of Canada, Option consommateurs, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and Union des consommateurs. Their comments on Bill C-32 included:

The legislation’s protection of digital locks will be detrimental to Canadian consumers and eliminate many of their rights with respect to copyright. It opens the door to the loss by consumers of the kind of durable lifetime access to purchased content traditionally associated with books, for example. It could make the transfer of access to content to inheritors more difficult and less likely. Consumers’ ability to unlock the content they purchased is not overtly protected in the legislation.

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