Canadian ISP Bandwidth Consumption Growth Falls 45%
Jesse Browns Search Engine on CBC covered a very interesting topic recently. The growth of bandwidth consumption went down 45% in Canada recently.
As Michael Geist is pointing out, if you’d like to talk about network neutrality to the CRTC, now is the time to do it, but you have until the 23rd to do [...]
IIPA Blames Canada for Movie Piracy (Again)
Many observers who take particular interest in Canadian issues surrounding copyright might find this to be a broken record, but a copyright lobby group is, once again, demanding that Canada be placed on a priority watch list in a special 301 report (or, as some might consider, a priority “wish list”)
In a demand submission recently [...]
French Film Director Pushes Canadian Streaming Site Offline
Says that because the site had advertising, it is an illegal website.
In a report that has, thus far, remained almost exclusively a French story to date, a French film director has pressured Canadian website BeeMotion.fr into going offline. One report from 01net says that the website is illegal because it also contained advertising. [...]
An International Look on Why Canada Shouldn’t Consider Surveillance Legislation
The Canadian government made signals that it wants to reintroduce the modernization of investigation techniques which brought forth the infamous “lawful access” provision. Is this a good idea when one looks at what has happened internationally?
A few days ago, Michael Geist highlighted news that the Canadian government was planning on introducing new surveillance legislation. [...]
CBC Reporter Spends Four Months Issuing Complaint to Telecom Complaints Commission
Just about everything is quick on the internet unless you’re a Canadian and have a complaint about a telecommunications giant.
For those who thought that the new complaints commission in Canada was a marvelous plan that would go off without a hitch, they may want to hit the back button on this next story. A [...]
Canada Elects Minority Government, Could Avoid Canadian DMCA Again
Canada was headed into political uncertainty with copyright legislation being successfully pushed under the rug throughout the election this year. For those hoping for a minority government to stop the Canadian DMCA really got their wish at this point in time.
Just minutes ago, the CBC has projected that Canada will be headed into a [...]
Broadcasters Fail to Bring Copyright into Canadian National Debates
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have had copyright on their minds as they went into the current election. In spite of a major grassroots movement to make copyright an election issue, the broadcasters seemed to have shut the issue out of the national leaders debate entirely.
The underlying idea of a national leaders debate in [...]
Calgarian Digital Rights Activists Organize to Make Copyright Election Issue
Making copyright an election issue has been largely an underground movement. That could change in later legs of the Canadian election if meetings as scheduled in Calgary continue.
Can copyright be an election issue? That’s a tall order considering how other issues like the economy, gas prices, the televised debates and job security have [...]
Canadian DMCA Doomed if Government Follows Through and Triggers Election
The Prime Minister of Canada is reportedly hinting at calling an election. If an election is called, history could repeat itself and have the Canadian DMCA die on the order-paper a second time.
It may seem like just run of the mill political news in Canada, but the consequences are far reaching – affecting the [...]
Bell Canada to Cap Competition to as Low as 2GB a Month Down Per User
You know competition is almost non-existent when one ‘competitor’ can decide what other competitors can and cannot do in the market.
Just when Bell thought the controversy and bad publicity around it’s company couldn’t get any worse, it did. The CBC is reporting that Bell Canada is now going to put download limits on its [...]
