Justice Minister and DRM Recap

If I hadn't been so distracted I would have gotten back to commenting about how my meeting with Vic Towes went sooner.

It wasn't what I expected but then again Vic isn't your regular politician, he was very easy to talk to and was aware of the concerns I was addressing. We only talked for about 20 minutes and while he didn't promise that things would change he did sympathise.

He mentioned that radio stations were asking the government for change. Apparently if you use a computer to play a song (that you legitametly own) on the radio you get charged an extra fee and there isn't any rationel as to why. Vic said that he believes that media you should have full use of media that you purchase, which is good news for us in the anti-DRM camp.

I gave him all the research I prinited out before meeting with him and he said he would look it over (he was very interested in the statement the Canadian Music Creators Coalition sent to the government). One thing Vic said though, was that this issue with DRM and the like is up to Bev Oda to decide how Canada will respond to the question of DRM.