Industry committee  Thank you. I don't want to end there, because it's really interesting, but I do want to ask a few other questions of other people as well. Mr. Blackfield, you mentioned problems of scalability with blockchain. Artist resales especially is something that takes place over an infi

Industry committee  I've been in technology long enough to know that there's no system that lasts forever in technology, so when something comes along that inevitably makes blockchain obsolete, or we discover that it isn't actually secure after all and there's some major vulnerability in the whole a

Industry committee  I appreciate that, but in the same vein, in a totally decentralized environment, which is what you're talking about being available as an option, someone has to hold the data somewhere. If everybody says somebody else is holding it, then sooner or later, nobody's holding it and t

Industry committee  You mentioned Bitcoin, that's an interesting point. We know Bitcoin is pretty popular now for fraud and theft on the Internet and so forth: We've lock up your computer and give us a Bitcoin or we won't unlock it. Using blockchain, is this something that's going to help or hurt th

Industry committee  Thank you.

Industry committee  Okay. I'll use them. Mr. Kerr-Wilson, were you here on the 26th of September for Shaw at the time?

Industry committee  Okay. Just for clarity, because your name tag said Gerald starting with a “J”, last time. I just want to make it clear for the record that you're the same person.

Industry committee  No worries...just so you're on the record as the same person. I'm just trying to make sure of that.

Industry committee  Do you have any differences in your position today versus under that client?

Industry committee  Thank you. That's all I need to know from there. Mr. Smith, you talked a lot about piracy, or privacy, as we've discussed a bit today. You talk about $160 billion in consumer-pirated content around the world. I'm going to assume that is based on everything pirated having full ma

Industry committee  Would you agree that those numbers tend to be based on the full market value or full consumer price for each product that was pirated?

Industry committee  Understood. Have we done a lot of studying of why people pirate in the first place?

Industry committee  But in the case of content, at least in the Canadian example.... We're hearing that Canada has a higher rate of piracy than other countries, but it also has, I heard somebody say, a lower rate of consumer-available content. There's a lot of Canadian-made content that you can't ge

Industry committee  Sure. Do you support FairPlay?

Industry committee  I have one final question. This is a general question really, for everybody. Should copyright be proactively registered by copyright holders, or should everything that is copyrightable be automatically copyrighted?