For the first time in what seems like and probably is years, the United States has made a sensible copyright-related decision, and it will hopefully cause Canada to do the same. A ruling by U.S. regulators that allows Americans to break certain digital locks on content and devices may throw a wrench into the Canadian …
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I Didn’t Know Blindness Alone Was Grounds For CPS Taking Someone’s Kids
Jen sent me this sad bit of news the other day. But before I blogged about it, I wanted to assure myself that it was in fact a real and up to date story. If there’s anything I have learned from Snopes, it’s verify, verify, verify! Here’s the message I received, and then I’ll add …
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The Following Post Is Brought To You By An Absolutely Extremist Whiney Baby…And The Government Of Canada
Well gees Louise, what do you know? Because I happen to bein favour of equal access to information and so don’t particularly care for the Conservative government’s new copyright bill,that makes mean “absolutist” and a “radical extremist” in the eyes of Heritage Minister James Moore.Thanks, Jim. He made the remarks during a speech at an …
Future Shopping At Future Shop Could Be Hard
I meant to write about this a looong time ago, but then I got busy, and after a while, I wanted to find out if there were any updates about the whole situation before I blogged about it. I don’t have any, but I’ve put a call in and am waiting for a response. It …
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Why I Don’t Like The New Copyright Bill And Neither Should You
The conservative government has once again made an attempt atintroducing new legislation to update Canada’s copyright act.In some ways it isn’t nearly as crappy as previous versions, but there’s one major problem that needs fixing before it hits the House of Commons. Included in the proposal is a section forbidding people from breaking any digital …
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It’s That Semple
Remember when I ate Gord Semple’s letter to the editor for breakfast? Well, it made the paper, with some minor changes. Yea! I wonder if he will respond?
Semple Minds Make Other Minds Churn
I swear sometimes Steve sends me stuff just to see what I’ll do. He saw this whining letter to the editor, and fired it in my direction. I’m sure he enjoyed watching what happened. In case the letter ever disappears, here is its contents. People are just whining about poor bus service After reading a …
Loose Standards On Loose Dogs
After that brief interlude of drunken stupidity, here’s another serious post. Jen sent me this, and it said we were free to circulate it, so here’s my attempt to circulate. I remember Helen McFadyen. I found her blog when I was talking about that horrible letter-writing campaign from CNIB that had Jim Sanders’s name falsely …
Petition to Freedom Scientific
Here comes another petition that folks might think about signing. Naama Erez has written a petition that she wants to send to Freedom Scientific. Her point is a good one. Why doesn’t Freedom Scientific have a lease to own program like their competitors do for buying JAWS? JAWS is a beast to buy, and even …
Wayfinder Access Petition Update
Back a while ago, I talked about the Wayfinder Access Petition. Well, here’s an update. It looks like the petition got Votefone’s attention, and they’re talking. This is a very good sign. Now, we need even more signatures to get a solution that’s workable for lots of folks, especially those in India who have no …