Of all the reactions to today's SCC decision to skip the appeal of the private copying decision, I thought the Canadian Recording Industry Association's was the most remarkable. I've obviously commented regularly on its high risk strategy of suing individual file sharers. I think this is a bad strategy for […]
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Private Copying Case
The Canadian Supreme Court this morning dismissed an application to hear an appeal of last December's Federal Court of Appeal decision involving the private copying levy and its application to MP3 players such as the Apple iPod. The decision means that the December decision stands, which affirms the legality of […]

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Episode 278: Ben Waldman on Gander Social and the Challenges of Building a Sovereign Social Network
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