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Creative Commons Licensed Album Amazon’s 2008’s Top MP3 Seller

The Creative Commons blog notes that Nine Inch Nail's Ghosts I-IV – which was freely available under a CC license – was the best selling MP3 album on Amazon in 2008. 

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January 7, 2009 1 comment News

200,000 Pirated DVDs Seized From Toronto Malls

The Toronto Star reports that police seized more than 200,000 illegal DVDs in three GTA malls in a series of raids that began in October.

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January 7, 2009 4 comments News

Is Throttling Necessary?

CBC's Search Engine has a great podcast that tries to answer the question that will dominate the CRTC's net neutrality hearing – is throttlng actually necessary?

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January 7, 2009 2 comments News

Fired Via Facebook

The Calgary Herald reports that a spa worker was fired via Facebook after failing to show up for a staff meeting.  The termination notice arrived in a private Facebook inbox.

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January 7, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Public Domain Day 2009

Wallace McLean offers his annual public domain day list of authors whose work entered into the public domain in Canada on January 1st.

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January 4, 2009 3 comments News