ubersonic - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Umm, no. (Score 1) 334

by ubersonic on Saturday February 09, 2008 @05:12AM (#22358610) Attached to: W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic

Funny thing is, its their software that does it as well. I regularly validate 100000+ sites a month using a copy of their w3 validator on one of my servers. Around half a year ago, their servers crawled to a halt - dont know why, but for around 3 days you could hardly reach w3.org, and my server would respond slow too. End of story, I had to hack the w3 software to make sure its not fetching the damn validation documents over and over.

Canada's New DMCA Considered Worst Copyright Law 234

Posted by kdawson on Thursday November 29, 2007 @11:31AM from the outdoing-the-southern-neighbours dept.

loconet writes "The government of Canada is preparing to attempt to bring a new DMCA-modeled copyright law in Canada in order to comply with the WIPO treaties the country signed in 1997. (These treaties were also the base of the American DMCA.) The new Canadian law will be even more restrictive in nature than the American version and worse than the last Canadian copyright proposal, the defeated Bill C-60. Among the many restrictive clauses in this new law, as Michael Geist explains, is the total abolishment of the concept of fair use: 'No parody exception. No time shifting exception. No device shifting exception. No expanded backup provision. Nothing.' Geist provides a list of 30 things that can be done to address the issues."

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