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Staying on the Sidelines of the Sony Story

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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November 29, 2005 4 comments News

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 […]

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November 25, 2005 5 comments News

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 […]

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November 23, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

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 […]

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November 23, 2005 1 comment News

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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November 20, 2005 3 comments Columns