In the article “Set-top box crackdown will chill Canada’s tech innovation: Geist” the author Michael Geist starts saying that the act of recording television programs is a well-known topic when it comes to lawsuits, and it happens all around the world, battle between stable companies and distributors of unsettle technologies.
A few cases have happened in Canada, but the government has created an understanding and a balance among an effective copyright protection without the inhibition of new technologies confirmed by a copyright reform; However, one case was launched recently by three largest media and communication companies from Canada; that were against different distributors of the television set-top boxes arguing that they are concerned