There's a lot of copyright changes on the go right now. In Canada, there's bill C-32 which ended up better than expected in some areas and much, much worse in others. ACTA is also out there being negotiated behind closed doors. An access to information request was put forth on this one and the response was a document with the title of the agreement with everything else blacked out. There's been no transparency and there's a good reason for that.
All of the changes being pushed for are being funded by publishing organizations and the recording industry. What we are going to end up with is legislation that is completely one-sided. It will favour industry at the expense of the public. It doesn't take much imagination to envision what this secret agreement will contain. It will make criminals of the entire population with the publishers able to extract as much money from the offenders as possible.
The reason publishers need to do this is that their traditional business model no longer stands on its own. Therefore the only way they can make money is by making the behaviour of the average citizen illegal and therefore "taxable". The fines and levies will amount to a tax on the population meant only to help the publishers limp along, contributing nothing to society, but extracting a great deal. At least when the government taxes us, we get services in return.
Read up on these initiatives at Michael Geist's blog. It's a great source of information. Once you get a better idea of what's going on. Contact your federal representative. It's really important as our future is being shaped as we speak, behind closed doors, in blacked out documents. We deserve to have a say in our future.