By disclosing video rental information of Facebook users through Beacon, some are arguing that Blockbuster violated the 1988 Video Privacy Law in the U.S.
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Opera takes Microsoft to court
Norwegian based Opera is accusing Microsoft of antitrust violations in an EU court in an attempt to sever the dominant Internet Explorer from Windows and also to force Microsoft to follow fundamental and open Web standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities. Good luck Opera.
Rally next Tuesday
Some of the Toronto members of the Fair Copyright for Canada group are planning a demonstration against the legislation next Tuesday. With the legislation dead (for now at least), this might just turn into a celebration! Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Location: Queen’s Park Street: 1 Queen’s Park Crescent E City/Town:Continue reading “Rally next Tuesday”
Journalist of the year, a blogger?
According to BuzzMachine a German media magazine, Medium, named a blogger as its journalist of the year because of the work this journalist/blogger (journalogger?) does on keeping tabs on Germany’s largest tabloid style paper. Jarvis worries that this might fuel the fires of the blogger vs MSM debate people still want to keep the wordsContinue reading “Journalist of the year, a blogger?”
Google’s ‘knol’: the new Wikipedia?
Google is testing a new internet site for information sharing that is similar Wikipedia, except that users will be able to include in their posts if they agree to share the revenues with Google. Think: you’re reading up on something new and you get to be advertised at, I am definitely going to stop usingContinue reading “Google’s ‘knol’: the new Wikipedia?”
Get out to Calgary! (DMCA)
Minister Jim Prentice is hosting an open house in his office where people can discuss the draconian copyright law the Canadian government is attempting to pass. If you can’t make it out to Calgary here are some things you can do according to Cory Doctorow: Not in Calgary? NO PROBLEM! Plan on calling the MinisterContinue reading “Get out to Calgary! (DMCA)”
Let’s talk about it after… (DMCA)
Industry Minister Jim Prentice is refusing to address the hundreds of questions received by CBC’s search engine about the upcoming copyright law, he wants to wait until the law is passed first, which is a good way to avoid any actual dialog about legislation that affects most Canadians. Michael Geist has 10 questions for theContinue reading “Let’s talk about it after… (DMCA)”
IRC data-mining
IRSeek is a service that logs IRC chats and posts them in a public searchable database, some of the logs date as far back as 2005. Some people are understandably a bit concerned about this (slashdot). IRSeek explains themselves in their official blog.
Traffic shaping
The Globe and Mail has an article on traffic shaping, net neutrality, etc. in Canada. The article quotes Michael Geist who believes that traffic shaping reveals a Canadian ISP dirty little secret about the overselling of bandwidth.
Worst copyright law ever…
The Canadian government is about to bring down Canada’s version of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and it promises to be the worst copyright law in the developed world. It will contain an “anti-circumvention” clause that prohibits breaking the locks off your music and movies in order to move them to new devices orContinue reading “Worst copyright law ever…”