Appeared in the Toronto Star on December 10, 2007 as How the Next Billion Will Reshape the Internet Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on December 11, 2007 as How the Next Billion Users Will Reshape All Aspects of the Internet Last month hundreds of people descended on Rio de Janiero, […]
Articles by: Michael Geist
Prentice’s Moment
In the past 24 hours, Industry Minister Jim Prentice has delayed introduction of the Canadian DMCA, faced questions about the lack of broad consultation during Question Period in the House of Comments (transcript, video), and the media has picked up the growing interest of thousands of Canadians in fair copyright […]
Quebec’s Perspective on the Canadian DMCA
Alain Brunet reports for La Presse. Update: More coverage here.
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Canadians are accustomed to "simultaneous substitution" for commercial television, so as the Internet on Cable becomes the Internet as Cable, I suppose it should not surprise that Rogers is experimenting with content substitution on the Internet. Lauren Weinstein reports that Rogers has begun inserting commercial messages into third party web […]
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