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Canadians Deserve Better ISP Transparency

My weekly law and technology column (Toronto Star version, Ottawa Citizen version, homepage version) picks up on last week's Leger Marketing survey that found that Canadians are generally unaware of net neutrality issues, yet, when informed of the concern, strongly support the principles that provide the foundation for net neutrality legislation.

Most Canadians can hardly be faulted for being unaware of net neutrality since ISPs have done their best to keep the issue off the public's radar screen.  While solving the net neutrality issue will not happen overnight, addressing the lack of transparency associated with Internet services would go a long way toward creating a more informed debate.

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October 9, 2007 5 comments Columns

The DRM Free-Fall

As Bell unveils a DRM-free music store and Yahoo says it won't invest any more money in DRM-based music stores, the DRM free-fall continues, yet CRIA and its allies puzzlingly continue to focus on legal reforms tied to DRM as their primary legislative objective.

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October 9, 2007 2 comments News

A Penny for Your Thoughts

Howard Knopf assesses the legal battle over the City of Toronto's use of the penny in an advertising campaign.

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October 9, 2007 1 comment News

Open WIPO Letter

IP Watch posts a open letter to the WIPO Secretary General that demonstrate the enormity of the problems at the UN institution.

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October 9, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Privacy Threats No Longer ‘Terra Incognita’ – The Video

Last week's column on the Data Protection and Privacy Commissioner's conference has generated a fair amount of attention.  As I noted in my blog posting, the column was based on my concluding remarks in the final plenary of that conference.  The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has now […]

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October 8, 2007 29 comments News