Billboard Magazine weighs in on the CRIA/Pollara data with an article (paywall) this week. After noting my posting and Pollara's response, it concludes that "it does appear that apathy, according to Pollara respondents, and not downloading, might be the Canadian biz's biggest enemy."
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Australia Leads, Canada Dithers in Spam Fight
While Canada dithers in dealing with spam, Australia continues to lead. Australia has taken an aggressive anti-spam approach and has been rewarded by dropping from the ranks of the country’s most responsible for spam. Canadian governments have done little to deal with the issue and we consistently find ourselves ranked […]
Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality
Tyler Hamilton of the Toronto Star has an interview with Tim Berners-Lee in which the WWW founder expresses concern about a two-tier Internet.
The Telecom Policy Review: The Rest of the Story
Coverage of the release last week of Canada's telecommunications policy review centered primarily on the call for a new regulatory approach that emphasizes market independence over government interference combined with a slimmed-down CRTC and list of policy priorities. My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, webpage version) focuses on the rest of the story as the report identified a series of important areas – including network neutrality, ubiquitous broadband access, privacy, spam, and consumer protection – that merit government intervention or support.
A Q & A With P2PNet
P2PNet has posted a Q & A with me that focuses, not surprisingly, on P2P, music, and copyright law.