Wednesday, May 28, 2008

G8 agreement would criminalise having copyrighted content on your iPod

How’s this for a fine how-do-you-do? It seems Canada is preparing, in conjunction with other G8 countries, some sort of trade agreement that would make having copyrighted material on your iPod and laptop (and so on) illegal. What’s more, the framework would give international border guards the authority to confiscate such electronic devices based on the mere suspicion of copyright infringement. Surely this must be a joke, right? If only it were. Details of the agreement, officially called th