The Sony rootkit story continues to be remarkably resilient as new developments emerge a full month after the story first began circulating in the blogosphere. I covered developments up until about a week ago in a recent column. Three Business Week stories now shed additional light, raising several points that […]
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The National Post on DRM
The National Post runs a brief masthead editorial today on the Sony debacle and the recording industry's use of digital rights management. The editorial is further evidence that this story remains in the public eye nearly four weeks after it first broke. The key quote (unfortunately the full editorial is […]
The Notice and Takedown Effect
Although Bill C-60 isn' t going anywhere given the current Parliamentary situation, digital copyright reform will be back once the dust settles. When it does, the proposed notice and notice system will undoubtedly come under attack, with groups such as CRIA arguing that a DMCA notice-and-takedown system (or even a […]
Bad Timing
Canadian actors descended on Parliament Hill yesterday to make their case for greater government funding for Canadian television and movie productions. Not the best day to do so, however, since it coincided with the Auditor General' s report on Canadian cultural funding. The report makes for interesting reading as it […]
The Lasting Impact of Sony’s Rootkit
My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available version, update: the BBC features an internationalized version) examines the controversy surrounding the Sony rootkit and its use of digital rights management. While in the short-term one of the world's best-known brands has suffered enormous damage, the longer-term implications are […]
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