While sifting through a cardboard box of books last week in the basement of my parent’s house, I came across Glenn Reynolds’ 2006 book An Army of Davids: How markets and technology empower ordinary people to beat Big Media, Big Government and other Goliaths. Apparently it had gone unnoticed and was mistakenly placed in a [...]

They changed their minds again, so no Canadian DMCA. At least not until the House is back in session at the end of January. But like I said in response to Matt’s post on the previous delay: we cannot back down now. As Michael Geist wrote today: “[...] this is Prentice’s moment. He has an [...]

To Minister Jim Prentice, Industry Canada, You should be ashamed of yourself. The delay in rolling out the new Canadian copyright bill earlier this week gave many Canadians hope that you would revise the bill in order to protect consumer and artist interests. Instead what we see is the Canadian government, once again, bowing down [...]

It appears as though I can still rip my CDs and DVDs for use on my iPod, thanks to public outcry from across the interwebs, as the proposed new Copyright Law for Canada has been delayed. Everyone who contacted Industry Minister Jim Prentice or their member or parliament in regards to this matter should give [...]

I am writing to express my discontent that the Canadian Government, a government which I believed to be progressive in its views on advances in culture and technology, would table a new copyright bill that is overly restrictive on the way Canadians can legally use their digital property. Furthermore, that the Government would do this [...]