Boing Boing: Canada’s copyfight explained, demystified

In Canada, the entertainment industry has decided that Canada’s copyright (which has been updated dozens of times since it was first introduced” is outdated and must be updated to look like American copyright law, but even worse. For example, Canada’s rightsholders want to replace “notice-and-takedown” (an ISP has to remove material when someone complains that it might be infringing) with a “notice-and-terminate” regime (an ISP has to kick off its customer if anyone, anywhere accuses them of infringing).