The opposition to Bill C-61 has focused on the protection of technological protection measures (TPMs, also known as digital rights management or DRM), digital locks intended to allow rights holders to control how their work is copied and distributed and to limit infringing use of these works. However, in doing so, TPMs prevent a myriad of legitimate uses, such as time and format shifting, or copies for personal use, educational purposes, review purposes, research, and parody.

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