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Submission + - Canadian DMCA bill withdrawn from House of Commons (michaelgeist.ca)

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ToriaUru

on Monday December 10, 2007 @06:20PM

ToriaUru writes: "The Canadian Minister of Industry, Mr. Jim Prentice has withdrawn the proposed Canadian Digital Millennium Copyright Act legislation that was due to be tabled in the Canadian House of Commons tomorrow. This is due to the overwhelming response by Canadians from every walk of life towards their Members of Parliament, the Industry Minister's office, and his counterpart at the Ministry of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, Ms. Josee Verger. The story is taking hold in the main stream press of Canada, with stories here http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071209.WBmingram20071209191018/WBStory/WBmingram/ and here on CBC http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/12/10/tech-copyright.html/ The power of the people talking."

Submission + - Canadian DMCA Placed on the Notice Paper (michaelgeist.ca)

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ToriaUru

on Friday December 07, 2007 @04:58PM

ToriaUru writes: "The proposed changes to the Copyright Act of Canada aka the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Canadian Style is going to be presented to the House of Commons in Ottawa next week. In order for the legislation to be tabled the office of the Minister must have it put on the Notice Paper on the Friday preceding that. Dr. Michael Geist has just blogged that the Notice paper contains this proposal for this law. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2449/ Please, come join the Fight for "Fair Copyright for Canada" at 'http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6315846683/ PLEASE, the U.S. model of the DMCA does not work. Why on earth would Canada need a similar law? That is what we will get if we don't stop this government from doing this."

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by ToriaUru on Friday December 07, 2007 @04:18PM

Submission + - Canadian DMCA protest (boingboing.net) 1

Submitted by ThePurpleBuffalo on Friday December 07, 2007 @12:24PM

ThePurpleBuffalo writes: Cory Doctorow has announced that Jim Prentice will be in Calgary, Alberta, Canada tomorrow (Saturday, 2007-12-10) and that this might be the best chance to fight the Canadian DMCA. From the article: "If you're a Canadian and you want to talk to Industry Minister Jim Prentice about his proposal for a Canadian DMCA, a copyright law that's even worse than the ten-year-old American legislation that resulted in lawsuits against 20,000+ Americans without stopping infringement or paying artists, now's your chance!"

Submission + - Facebook opened to advertisers

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ToriaUru

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @02:21PM

ToriaUru writes: "I'm sure you'll have read this 2,002 times already, but yeah, Facebook is now "cashing in". Ah, the joys of being hooked by it, not.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/11/07/facebook-ads.html

http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/ad-nauseum-facebook-users-cop-the-hard-sell/2007/11/07/1194329284640.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Facebook-Ads-makes-business-your-friend/0,130061791,339283575,00.htm

Cash, cash, cash cow... here we come. Um, no, not me."

Submission + - Facing Up To Facebook Fears

Submitted by ToriaUru on Monday May 07, 2007 @10:32AM

ToriaUru writes: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1924/ This story offers the view that Facebook is here to stay. It's simply another vehicle to talk to people, and shouldn't be viewed as something evil. It's a new way of communication. For schools, and governments to be banning it, is not the answer.

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