Archive for December, 2008

The Twelve Days of EFF

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has produced a terrific short video highlighting its critically important work over the past twelve months.

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December 18, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

Singapore Enacts New Anti-Circumvention Exceptions

Singapore has enacted new copyright reforms that include the right for teachers to circumvent digital locks on movies for classroom use and for the visually-disabled to circumvent to allow the read-aloud function to work.

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December 18, 2008 1 comment News

B.C. Police Arrest Man For Pirating DVDs

B.C. police have arrested a man engaged in the production and sale of infringing DVDs.

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December 18, 2008 9 comments News

Cisco Study Says Canada Leading Source of Spam

Another day, another study showing Canada is a leading source of spam.  This time, it's a Cisco study that finds that on a per capita basis, Canada is single largest source of spam among the top 16 countries surveyed worldwide.  The study says that Canada is the fourth largest source […]

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December 17, 2008 10 comments News

ObamaCTO Crowdsources Priorities

This may come as old news to some, but a new site (unaffiliated with the Obama transition team), is asking the public to identify their top issues for the new Obama Chief Technology Officer. The top three issues so far: net neutrality, privacy, and repealing the DMCA.

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December 17, 2008 Comments are Disabled News