Newly-appointed Attorney General David Lametti in a paper written as a McGill law professor defended blatant music piracy as ethical “whatever the law”: “Everyone is doing it,” he wrote. Lametti yesterday did not comment.
“Everyone is doing it, and it is not necessarily theft, piracy or even wrong,” Lametti wrote in a 2011 paper The Virtuous P(eer): Reflections On The Ethics Of File Sharing. “It may be beneficial to one’s emotional and social development, and thus justified, ethical and virtuous.”
MPs are conducting a statutory review of the Copyright Act to curb costly theft blamed for billions in losses. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in a submission to the Commons industry committee called Canada a world leader in online copyright theft.
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