Last week's headlines about a potential court order involving ICANN and the spamhaus domain? Denied .
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Australia Releases Copyright Amendment Bill
As always, Kim Weatherall has the details including the incredibly short timeline for discussion of a 219-page law.
Gov’t Backs Down in Cash Grab For Deferral Account
The Globe and Mail reports that the government was thinking about grabbing the more than $600 million sitting in deferral accounts that the CRTC wants used for broadband and consumer groups want refunded. The optics of hundreds of millions of consumers' money going into government coffers while the same telcos […]
IFPI Excludes University from P2P Press Conference
More here on the situation in Brazil.
Yahoo on DRM
Yahoo music executive David Goldberg on DRM and music : "The notion that a track I buy in DRM is protected and one without DRM isn't is a fallacy," Goldberg says. "It's all nonsense. Music is never going to be protected, and anybody who tells you that is not being […]