Editorial: The Importance of the Anti-Circumvention Debate in Canada
With the Canadian DMCA about to be tabled this week I thought it would be important to talk about DRM and why the debate around it is important ...
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Opposition to Canadian DMCA Escalates
It's a party like 2005 and 2008 and everyone is invited. Ever since the Canadian DMCA was announced, opposition has been growing and the opposition now only stands to ...
Canada Launches Digital Economy Consultation
After what appears to be the governments own undoing for launching a copyright consultation and ignoring the results, the Canadian government is now launching a second consultation on Canada's Digital ...
Commentary: A Response to Denis McGrath on the State of the Copyright Debate
Denis McGrath from Dead Things on Sticks had an interesting commentary on the state of the copyright debate today in Canada. Drew Wilson felt the need to ...
Chinese USB Wifi Crackers Make Three Strikes Laws Obsolete?
With many countries considering a three strikes law, it's interesting how privacy and copyright can go hand in hand online. With China's notoriety for online censorship, it's only interesting ...
Another Study Finds File-Sharers Are Big Content Spenders
Stop us if you've heard this one... actually don't because you've probably have. A new study shows that file-sharers do, in fact, pay more on content then non-file-sharers.
We've all ...
Apple Rumoured to Be Preparing to Sue Open Source Codec Developers
An e-mail reportedly from Steve Jobs has recently surfaced which suggests that Apple may be preparing to sue Theora and other open source video codecs. The dispute would revolve ...
EU Web Filtering Debate Heats Up With IT Group Denouncing It
There's already been a lot of talk about a possible web filter in the EU and now the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), a group representing a number of ...
‘Trillions’ Contributed to US Economy Through Fair Use
While in countries like Canada, there is a debate over whether an expanded fair dealings is being played out, a study in the US looked at how much the economy ...
CCER Refutes Lawyers Opinion on Canadian Copyright Consultation
The Canadian Coalition for Electronic Rights has posted a response to a recent opinion posted by Richard Owens, a lawyer whose been involved in, among others, the Canadian Intellectual Property ...
ACTA Falling Apart?
ACTA has been called many things over the years since it was first leaked online, but an all around failure was certainly not one of them until until the last ...
2009 – A ZeroPaid Year In Review – Part 3 of 3
We wrap things up with the last third of 2009. Part one. Part 2.
September
September started off with the continuation of the Jammie Thomas trial where ...
2009 – A ZeroPaid Year in Review – Part 2 of 3
We continue with our 2009 year in review with part two of our three part review. Part one of three.
May
May started off with several stories pretty much ...
2009 – A ZeroPaid Year in Review – Part 1 of 3
2008 was an interesting year in file-sharing and 2009 didn't necessarily disappoint. There was plenty of ways to look at it, but there is one way one can look ...
RIAA Member Lawyer Blames Joel for ThePirateBay Mixtape
Interesting new development in the Tenenbaum case. After ThePirateBay posted the DJ Joel Mixtape, a torrent of the songs Joel was sued for ($675,000 in damages), the ...
PPUK – Why the Price of Justice is Too High for File-Sharing
Last week, the UK Pirate Party officially became a political party in Britain, this week, they have posted an interesting commentary on the price of justice ...
ESA Canada – Canadian Gaming Industry Grew Without TPM Law
A recent op-ed in the ongoing copyright consultation in Canada by Danielle Parr of ESA Canada suggests that TPMs prevent piracy and somehow lead to more consumer choice.
Not that the ...
NPD Group Study Shows Increase in Online Download Sales
When it comes to the ratio between physical album sales and digital download sales, digital download sales have increased at the expense of physical CD sales. That's not to ...
The DOC Supports Expanding Canada’s Fair Dealings
Fair dealings is a very hot topic for debate in Canada. While a select few, namely Barry Sookman, don't support any expansion on fair dealings, there is a growing ...
Manitoba Music Industry Association Shuns CRIA Stance on Copyright
It may be history repeating itself. When CRIA pushed for Bill C-60, many Canadian labels who were, at the time, members of CRIA, broke away from the organization, saying ...
