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Microsoft Misleads On Canadian Copyright Reform 107

Posted by kdawson from the can't-have-it-both-ways dept.
An anonymous reader writes "As the battle rages over a Canadian DMCA, Microsoft Canada has published an op-ed in a political newspaper that Michael Geist describes as astonishingly misleading and factually incorrect. Microsoft tries to argue that Canadian copyright law provides no legal protections, even after it received one of the largest copyright damage awards in Canadian history just one year ago."

Comment Re:Institutions (Score 1) 345

by Dushnock (#21629809) Attached to: Jimmy Wales Says Students 'Should Use' Wikipedia
Let's not confuse the issue(s).

I don't know of any teacher who told their students NOT to use Wikipedia.
As a teacher I use Wikipedia, I tell my students to use it... However, I also tell them that Wikipedia is not a source to quote !

Use Wikipedia to do basic research and get fundamental and background information, then follow the links at the end of the articles and then you have a full dataset.
Quote the original source do not quote a generalistic encyclopedia.

Those are two different issues and (some) people seem to confuse them.
But then, I also (try to) teach them how to use Wikipedia.
Google

Submission + - Google threatens to end Gmail service in Germany

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: According to the English edition of the "Der Spiegel" weekly, Google has threatened that it would rather shut down its Gmail service in Germany than comply with a controversial German surveillance law that would require telecommunications companies to store logs of their users's phone and internet activities for six months, including Internet details, phone call information, and text messages. While Germany's parliament has not held a vote over the proposed law yet or set a date for the vote, Google's Global Privacy councel Peter Fleischer calls the proposal a "heavy blow against the private sphere." The article continues to quote him as follows: "Many users around the globe make use of this anonymity to defend themselves from spam, or government repression of free speech," [...] ""If the Web community won't trust us with handling their data with great care, we'll go down in no time." As an emergency measure, he said — rather than change the product — "we would shut off Google Mail in Germany."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Prohibition reaches out for game addiction ! (acm.org)

Submitted by Dushnock
Dushnock writes: The ACM has an interesting article about countries which seem to be scared by citizens becomming addicted to games and the internet... Well the solution seems simple: censorship !

China has ordered Internet game operators to install "anti-addiction" software on their games to help young Chinese players stay offline.
I wonder if they could learn from the mistakes of early 1920s prohibition...
Editorial

Submission + - AMA Considers a New Addiction: Video Games (technologyreview.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: The American Medical Association is voting this week on whether video game additction should be added to their list of psychiatric illnesses. What's particularly irksome, is that the people involved in the debate don't seem terribly knowledgeable about the games themselves. As Erica Naone notes in MIT's Technology Review, if anyone who games for more than two hours at a time is considered an addict, then anyone who wants to get ahead in an MMORPG has psychiatric issues. Moreover, the AMA states that online relationships aren't real — which only further emphasizes there lack of udnerstanding about massively multiplayer games.

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