New submitter Fnordulicious writes "Although Canada's anti-spam legislation is already in place, the rules to implement it have been under development for more than a year. This weekend the proposed rules from the Department of Industry were published in the Canada Gazette. Kady O'Malley reports on the CBC Inside Politics Blog that Canadian ISPs will not be allowed to secretly monitor activity except in the case that the activity is illegal and represents an 'imminent risk to the security of its network.' In addition, consent would be required for monitoring of legal activities 'that are merely unauthorized or suspicious.'"

Julie188 writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling on Apple to indemnify its developers from Lodsys — a patent troll that's alleging patent infringement on the in-app purchasing used by iOS apps. (That's the technology developed by Apple and forced on many of its developers.) The letters Lodsys has been sending out came to light on May 13th, and apparently developers have been asking Apple for help to no avail."

NetDevil has revealed that their upcoming space MMOG, Jumpgate: Evolution, is set for release in June. They've also released some new screenshots and a trailer, and a preview of the game is available at IGN. This information comes alongside news that Champions Online, a superhero MMOG under development by Cryptic Studios, will come out in June as well. Gameplay footage was shown at the recent New York Comic Con, and Massively has been running a DevBlog with information straight from Cryptic.