Michael Geist

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• ACTA in Korea: ’secret talks on transparency’

  
  Ares Vista 2009 — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• ACTA in Korea: ’secret talks on transparency’

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  DesiTonic : Spice Your Life With Daily Digital Doze — Authority: 158
  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
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• Cellphone calculator goes online

  
  Ares Vista 2009 — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Globalive: drop ‘foreign ownership restrictions’

  
  Ares Vista 2009 — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Net neutrality: still a work in progress

  
  Ares Vista 2009 — Authority: 138
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Privacy and .ca

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 505
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Copyright fight through the ages

  
  Ares Vista 2009 — Authority: 138
  p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “If we don’t control it, file sharing will destroy the music business !!!” Then »»» Gut me with a spoon! This new technology [blank tapes] makes it easy for anyone to duplicate music taking money away from artists and companies who invest in artists!!! Soon ...
  3 weeks ago

• This Hour Has 22 Minutes Parodies the Music Industrys Stance on Copyright Reform

  
  The Intrepid — Authority: 128
  This clip isnt hilarious, but it gets the message right. The Canadian music industrys arguments about file-sharing are the same as the ones that were made about tapes, VCRs, and photocopiers. File-sharing isnt going to destroy the music industry. It might change it by eliminating some of the more bloated players, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Copyright fight through the ages

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  “If we don’t control it, file sharing will destroy the music business !!!” Then »»» Gut me with a spoon! This new technology blank tapes makes it easy for anyone to duplicate music taking money away from artists and companies who invest in artists!!! Soon there’ll be no new music … Then VCRs »»» Soon ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Electronic Commerce "Protection" Act

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 510
  So, tomorrow there is a significant Commons committee meeting dealing with Bill C-27, the Electronic Commerce Protection Act. I have begun following this now as both the Cynic site and Pogge have begun writing about it, drawing attention to Michael Geists writings regarding this legislation. I have found myself ...
  3 weeks ago

• Canadian Copyright Lobby Fights Anti-Spyware Legislation

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 141
  An anonymous reader writes "New Canadian anti-spam and anti-spyware legislation is scheduled for a key vote on Monday. Michael Geist reports that the copyright lobby has been pushing to remove parts of the bill that would take away exceptions which currently allow spyware to be installed without authorization. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reduce fair dealing, no taping tv shows

  
  Ares Vista 2009 — Authority: 137
  p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “Man, if these yahoos set out to destroy the public’s faith in copyright, they could not do a better job than they’re doing now.” That’s Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing . The ‘yahoos’ are the people at Access Copyright. But do the members of the public who even know ...
  4 weeks ago

• Canada a ‘broadband leader’. Oh, rilly?

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  Consultants Mark Goldberg and Giganomics released a new report this week on the state of Canada’s broadband infrastructure. Commissioned by Bell Canada, Bell Aliant, Cogeco, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw, and Telus, it states as its purpose to “confirm or disprove whether Canada faces a real problem in terms of broadband ...
  4 weeks ago

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