As many readers will know, I've written a fair amount about the myths associated with file sharing and music sales. My writing has focused on the growth of DVDs and video games, changes to the retail channel, and the compensation earned through the private copying levy to demonstrate the losses […]
Articles by: Michael Geist
The Telus Blockade and the Law
Much like the recent Harry Potter injunction, the story of Telus blocking access to a website gets worse the more you think about it. As I noted when the story first broke on Sunday, blocking a million Internet users from a website is not only ineffective, it is dangerous as […]
Busy Internet Week at the SCC
Yesterday I noted that the Supreme Court of Canada will release its decision on whether it will hear the private copying appeal on Thursday. Today comes news that on Friday the SCC will issue its decision in R. v. Hamilton. The case involves the counselling of crime provision in the […]
LaForest Appointed To Review Info and Privacy Offices
Former Supreme Court justice Gerard Vincent LaForest was appointed today to study the prospect of combining the Information Commissioner and the Privacy Commissioner into a single office. Although that approach is used in many provinces, given the frustration experienced by the Information Commissioner in obtaining compliance (and an extension in […]