Nearly a year after its last round of anti-spam actions, the Canadian Competition Bureau yesterday announced settlements with two Canadian spamming operations that used spam to promote a "bogus" product called Fuel Saver Pro. The joint announcement with the FTC suggested that there were hundreds of victims worldwide from the […]
Archive for December, 2005
The Search for Net Neutrality
My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available version) examines the growing trend toward a two-tiered Internet, which upends the longstanding principle of network neutrality under which ISPs treat all data equally. I argue that the network neutrality principle has served ISPs, Internet companies, and Internet users well. […]
The Search for Net Neutrality
Appeared in the Toronto Star on December 19, 2005 as Dangers in ISPs’ Bid For New TollsAppeared in the Ottawa Citizen on December 22, 2005 as Keep Networks Neutral Appeared in the BBC on December 22, 2005 as Towards a Two-Tier Internet The Search, a popular new book by John […]
TVO’s The Agenda Debates Copyright
Copyright debate on TVO’s the Agenda (view and listen/MP3 on TVO.com).
Election Answers
For the past two weeks, I have featured columns focusing on law and technology issues within the context of the upcoming election. Last week I focused on the Liberal record during its minority government and this week I posed "big picture" issues that need answering. I got my first answer […]