Canada is preparing to introduce a revamped copyright bill that will have disastrous consequences for consumers. The Government is hereby ignoring the public consultation held last year, where many Canadians spoke out against harsher copyright legislation.
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In 2008,Consultation Public cleared that very strict Anti-Piracy laws are not welcomed in canada, but it looks like that this has had very little effect on canadian government.Canada’s Prime Minister is about to announce a ‘new’, even more strict law.  Michael Geist, prof. E-commerce Law in Ottawa, Said that this bill  is,“the most anti-consumer copyright bill in Canadian history.”

IsoHunt [popular BT Search Engine] is currently hosted in Isohunt Web Technologies/Canada and involved in a lawsuit against the Canadian Recording Industry Assicoation (CRIA). If this new bill is passed, this would mean that isoHunt’s chances of winning that long standing legal battle will decrease .

Isohunt owner Gary hung said that by this law,”We need laws that support our neutrality and our ability to operate a search engine free of censorship and unreasonable constraints,’It is completely opposite to what they expect’,ISPs can be forced to handover private information of users . They may be further encouraged to throttle P2P traffic, The new bill also is unlikely to provide fair exceptions for breaking DRM for purposes that doesn’t violate copyright, which unfairly prohibits one’s tinkering with electronics he owns.

However,It is not completely clear what the details of the new bill will be, but expected that it will be the equivalent of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This means that copyright takedown request become a censorship tool while consumers lose several ‘fair use’ rights

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