Neutrality.ca has served as an important clearinghouse for a Canadian perspective on the net neutrality issue. Kevin McArthur did a terrific job in getting the site launched, but as regular readers know, decided that he could not continue to operate the site. Given its importance, I’ve agreed to step in […]
Articles by: Michael Geist
Industry Committee Hearing on Olympic Marks Bill
The Industry Committee conducted its first hearing yesterday afternoon on Bill C-47, the Olympics marks bill (the second and likely final hearing goes this morning). With the exception of one Conservative MP who raised the prospect of whether the bill should include criminal provisions for ambush marketing, most of the […]
Engadget Reports Cable Co’s Actively Using Broadcast Flag
Engadget reports that some Canadian cable providers, particularly Rogers and Shaw, are activating the broadcast flag onto a questionable amount of content. The site says that "users who are trying to record said programming via their own Windows Vista Media Center setup are receiving all sorts of errors and messages […]
Multilingual Domain Name Delay A Barrier to Net Diversity
Appeared in the Toronto Star on June 4, 2007 as It's Time to Support a Multilingual Web Imagine if each time a Canadian Internet user entered an email or website address, they would be required to include a Chinese or Cyrillic character. For millions of non-English speakers around the world, […]
Is Telus Overreaching With YouTube Copyright Claims?
A blog reader points to a site listing more than a dozen videos posted on YouTube that Telus has demanded be removed due to copyright concerns. While there are several videos that may indeed be subject to Telus copyright, many others appear to merely involve union videos that surely do […]
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