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CRIA Says No Content Blocking Demands in Forthcoming Bill

CRIA tells the Globe and Mail that it is not seeking copyright provisions "related to content filtering or termination of repeat offenders."

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January 25, 2008 4 comments News

Wikinomics on the Copyright MPs

The Wikinomics blog expands my chart on the Copyright MPs by focusing on vote totals and the percentage of students needed to swing the relevant ridings.

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January 25, 2008 1 comment News

Privacy Coalition Warns on Copyright Reform

Following on Privacy Commissioner of Canada Jennifer Stoddart's public letter warning against weakening privacy through copyright reform, a broad coalition of privacy, education, civil liberties groups, and academics have signed a public letter raising similar concerns (I am a signatory).

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January 25, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

The MPAA Error

Lots of people have written to note that the MPAA has now acknowledged a major error in much-promoted study about the impact of movie piracy.  Having overstated those numbers so fundamentally – and relied upon them before the U.S. Congress – it must surely raise questions about the accuracy of […]

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January 24, 2008 1 comment News

IFPI Continues the March Against ISPs

The IFPI is out today with its annual digital music sales report.  Canada ranked as the seventh largest digital music market in the world last year.  The IFPI's focus, however, is on ISPs and the push for content blocking, a trend that has begun to emerge in Canada.

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January 24, 2008 3 comments News