Wikileak Cables and Canadian Copyright

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Wikileak Cables and Canadian Copyright

Postby PMC » Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:56 am

Interesting stuff on how the Ottawa elected majority puppets are told what to do by the u.s. government.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/arti ... -bill?bn=1

and Michael Geist's own page on this

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5986/135/

The copyright bill is coming back, and digital locks remain the big issue. We don't need draconian laws.

For those that missed the Conrad Black interview on the tube, even he, a prime right wing conservative, is opposed to Harper building more jails, after being a guest in the u.s. system of justice.
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Re: Wikileak Cables and Canadian Copyright

Postby Howaboutthat » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:55 am

PMC wrote:Interesting stuff on how the Ottawa elected majority puppets are told what to do by the u.s. government.



No different than Air Canada bowing to United about implementing a fee for the first checked bag.
Houston, We're dealing with morons!.
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Re: Wikileak Cables and Canadian Copyright

Postby PMC » Sat Sep 03, 2011 12:11 pm

Howaboutthat wrote:
PMC wrote:Interesting stuff on how the Ottawa elected majority puppets are told what to do by the u.s. government.

No different than Air Canada bowing to United about implementing a fee for the first checked bag.


Your brain trust is bankrupt with a response like that. It has nothing to do with Wikileaks or the copyright issue. ;-)
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Re: Wikileak Cables and Canadian Copyright

Postby PMC » Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:57 pm

Michael Geist has some further news on Canadians that will now be tracked down from their IP address and ISP so that any that downloaded a movie can be sued.
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Hurt Locker File Sharing Suits Come North: Federal Court Orders ISPs to Disclose Subscriber Info

File sharing lawsuits involving the movie the Hurt Locker have been big news in the United States for months as tens of thousands of lawsuits have been filed. It now appears that the lawsuits are coming to Canada as the Federal Court of Canada has paved the way for the identification of subscribers at Bell Canada, Cogeco, and Videotron who are alleged to have copied the movie.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
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As I pointed out previously, many people run `open access' NAT routers, which allow others to use the internet connection that belongs to someone else. These NAT routers assign private IP addresses, while the router itself runs on a public IP address that belongs to the ISP.

On your average street or apartment building, atleast one and sometimes a dozen open access points can be found and used by anyone that has wifi in their desktop or laptop/notebook computer. As I write this, I have a listing of 10 wifi routers, and two of them are wide open for anyone to use. Most schools and libraries in this area run open wifi too.

The lawyers will be making the money, and I hope that the judges in each instance of this applied law and the court cases, are educated on the basics of what wifi is, and how having a public IP address does not guarantee that the owner is using it for abusing copyright.

The legal beagles at BMG seem to be lacking in this knowledge, or are going along with it to sooth the customer, and make a profit at the same time.
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