Even though the CRTC paved the way for usage-based billing last November Canada's Minister of Industry, Tony Clement, says PM Harper has always been clear about his commitment to "encouraging ...
TekSavvy announces roll out of new broadband packages meant to comply with CRTC's approval of Bell Canada's plans for usage-based billing for its Gateway Access Services (GAS) customers.
Last November, ...
If you download Linux ISOs, stream movies from Netflix, listen to podcasts, play online games, or are grabbing the latest open source software such as Open Office, Gimp or FireFox, ...
Just shortly after new years, news surfaced on multiple websites where Intel was developing a chip that would support high definition copy protected content for streaming ...
If you ever wanted the real story on why innovative music services cannot exist in Canada, you couldn't ask for a more modern story then Pandora's relationship with Canada.
Pandora is ...
There was recent news of one of Canada's biggest ISP, Bell Canada (or BCE) acquiring CTV Globemedia, one of Canada's largest broadcasting network. With service delivery corporations ...
While the US is doing everything they can to block transparency of the text, the draft text has, once again, been leaked. We reviewed the text and are commenting ...
We have been interviewing Russell McOrmond. The interview is in three parts. Parts 1 and 2 are already available. We now conclude our ...
We are currently in the process of interviewing Russell McOrmond, a well known observer of Canadian copyright and policy consultant. You can read part 1 here.
In the ...
About two years ago, we interviewed a Canadian consultant to discuss various issues surrounding copyright. It was a fascinating interview and here making his return is Russell ...
The USTR's Special 301 report has been well known for being essentially a wish-list put together by the US copyright industry. Over the last few years, doubts have been ...
Recent announcement by Librarian of Congress of new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes Canada's proposed Copyright Reform Bill (C-32) look more draconian than ever, and rather ...
We've provided some extensive coverage of Bill C-32 including a detailed analysis that allows readers to decipher our interpretations for themselves. Since our detailed review, a number ...
We have just wrapped up reviewing bill C-32, Canada's copyright reform bill. Since Canada had a huge public consultation on the matter earlier, we found it to be an ...
After 5 parts, we begin to near the end of our look at Bill C-32, Canada's copyright reform bill. While we may have covered a large number of broad ...
We continue our comprehensive analysis of Bill C-32, Canada's recently tabled copyright reform legislation. The topic has become an increasingly forbidden topic to discuss, however, we are ...
We have been looking at copyright reform to great detail for some time now. It has come to our attention that James Moore, one of the ministers in charge ...
We are now over half way through reading through and analyzing Canada's latest copyright reform bill. While there have been many interesting ideas (many of which are, unsurprisingly, controversial), ...
We have already made a lot of ground in reading through and attempting to understand the legislation currently being analyzed by many other Canadians right now. It's already been ...
Yesterday, we went through the first page of Canada's latest copyright reform bill (Bill C-32). It's a lengthy piece of legislation that requires multiple articles simply due to its ...