Michael Geist

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• EU ACTA Analysis Leaks: Confirms Plans For Global DMCA, Encourage 3 Strikes Model

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  The European Commission analysis of ACTA’s Internet chapter has leaked, indicating that the U.S. is seeking to push laws that extend beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and beyond current European Union law (the EC posted the existence of the document last week but refused to make it publicly available). The document ...
  11 hours ago

• More ACTA Leaks; Still Looking Really Bad

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Yet again, despite all the secrecy and bogus claims of "national security," the details behind whats being proposed in ACTA have leaked, and they dont look good at all . Its basically an attempt to force the worst of the DMCA on much of the rest of the world, with a few carefully chosen modifications. While there are ...
  1 day ago

• EU ACTA Analysis Leaks: Confirms Plans For Global DMCA, Encourage 3 Strikes Model

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  The European Commission analysis of ACTA’s Internet chapter has leaked, indicating that the U.S. is seeking to push laws that extend beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and beyond current European Union law (the EC posted the existence of the document last week but refused to make it publicly available). The document ...
  1 day ago

• Blank TV screens instead of programs?

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 160
  p2pnet news view Politics | TV:- In the weeks leading to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission hearing on broadcasting licences, Canadians were inundated with splashy advertising campaigns claiming that new fees for local signals were either a TV tax or would save local television. With all ...
  1 week ago

• ACTA in Korea: ’secret talks on transparency’

  
  Ares Vista 2009 — Authority: 128
  p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The current round of ACTA negotiations wrap up later today in Seoul, Korea.  Having spent the first day focused on the now-leaked Internet provisions and the second day on the leaked criminal provisions, negotiators will spend this morning discussing whether they should ...
  3 weeks ago

• ACTA in Korea: ’secret talks on transparency’

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 160
  p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The current round of ACTA negotiations wrap up later today in Seoul, Korea. Having spent the first day focused on the now-leaked Internet provisions and the second day on the leaked criminal provisions, negotiators will spend this morning discussing whether they should make the draft ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad." and related posts

  
  DesiTonic : Spice Your Life With Daily Digital Doze — Authority: 155
  Boing Boing The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. The ACTA Internet Chapter: Putting the Pieces Together
  3 weeks ago

• Cellphone calculator goes online

  
  Ares Vista 2009 — Authority: 128
  p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The prayers of the Liberals have been answered! Well, kind of. The federal government should re-instate the online cell phone calculator “to provide greater transparency for Canadians,” they said in a recent statement. And today we learn Bell is one day ahead pf Telus ...
  4 weeks ago

• Globalive: drop ‘foreign ownership restrictions’

  
  Ares Vista 2009 — Authority: 128
  p2pnet news view Politics:- The CRTC this afternoon issued its decision on whether Globalive, a new wireless competitor about to operate as Wind Mobile, complies with the foreign ownership restrictions currently found in the Telecommunications Act. While Industry Canada previously concluded that Globalive met ...
  4 weeks ago

• Net neutrality: still a work in progress

  
  Ares Vista 2009 — Authority: 127
  p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The release last week of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s report on Internet traffic management – known as the net neutrality decision – attracted national attention. Canadians, Internet service providers, and politicians debated whether the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Privacy and .ca

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 432
  For years, if you registered a .ca domain, anyone could see your name, address and email in online “whois” databases. In 2008, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority ( CIRA ) restricted access to this information. Internet law guru Michael Geist hailed early drafts of the CIRA’s new whois policy as “a ...
  5 weeks ago

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