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Toronto Star on Paying for P2P

The Toronto Star reports on a Canadian Music Week panel that speculated on the prospect of paying for P2P.

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March 9, 2008 7 comments News

Conservatives Rerun New Year Card Issue

Fresh off the controversy involving Jewish New Year cards, yesterday I received an email from a reader angry over having received a Chinese New Year card from Prime Minister Stephen Harper.  The same privacy issues again come to the fore – the person is not Chinese and is upset that […]

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March 7, 2008 3 comments News

Senate Committee To Conduct Hearings on C-10

The Senate Banking Committee has issued a news release indicating that it will hear from the cultural community and the Minister of Canadian Heritage on the controversial issue of film tax credits and a Ministerial veto.

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March 7, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

Ryerson Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Use

The big story in Toronto today is news that a student may face expulsion from Ryerson University for their use of Facebook.  In this instance, the student was an administrator of a Facebook group that students in a chemistry class used to assist one another with assignments.  It would appear […]

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March 6, 2008 21 comments News

CRIA Announces Shut Down of Canadian Counterfeiting Operation

I'm at Canadian Music Week in Toronto this week (where a representative of the RIAA urged Canadians to increase the "hassle" factor of P2P by launching lawsuits and polluting the P2P networks with fake files) where CRIA just issued a press release heralding the shut down and arrest of a […]

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March 6, 2008 12 comments News