Canada being bullied into copyright reform

There is an excellent article by Cory Doctorow on guardian.co.uk that highlights the problems with protecting digital locks and suggests that Canada is being bullied into the reforms by the United States. Doctorow points out that after wide public consultation regarding copyright reform the consensus was to “let us have protection for digital locks, but only if you’re breaking them in order to commit an act of actual copyright infringement”. Of course our government failed to heed the calls and has gone the other way in pursuing U.S. style protection for the digital locks themselves and we are left to wonder exactly whose interests are being protected.