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Canadian Copyright Reform Authors Know The Law Outlaws Circumvention Even If No Infringement… But Don’t Seem To Care

We’ve been expecting Canadian politicians to re-introduce last year’s bad copyright reform bill without any changes. Despite widespread public complaints over the bill, the supporters of the bill (who are being pressured heavily by US lobbyists and di… Continue reading

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Canadian Copyright Reform Authors Know The Law Outlaws Circumvention Even If No Infringement… But Don’t Seem To Care

We’ve been expecting Canadian politicians to re-introduce last year’s bad copyright reform bill without any changes. Despite widespread public complaints over the bill, the supporters of the bill (who are being pressured heavily by US lobbyists and di… Continue reading

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OnStar Drops Plan To Monitor Non-Subscribers

Given the widespread public backlash over OnStar’s plan to keep tracking people after they’d canceled their service — and to potentially sell aggregate info to advertisers — it appears that OnStar did what many people expected and backed away from th… Continue reading

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ITV ‘Investigative Reporters’ Confuse Video Game With Terrorist Video

A bunch of folks have been sending in variations on this story about how the UK’s ITV’s new “investigative current affairs” program broadcast a special about Gadaffi and the IRA… but used video game footage of ARMA 2, which came out a couple years ag… Continue reading

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Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Download Links

In the BUILD Developer conference a couple of days ago, Microsoft introduced the next version of Windows called Windows 8 and next version of Visual Studio called Visual Studio 11. Microsoft released the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and Windows … Continue reading

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DailyDirt: Talking To Animals

Unfortunately, there are no dog collars like the ones in Up that can translate what dogs are saying into perfect English. But the technology to create an animal translator could actually be on the way. Considering how well machines can translate betwee… Continue reading

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Righthaven Desperately Trying To Avoid Paying Legal Fees

The Righthaven saga continues. Just as it’s lost in Colorado, and was told it needs to pay legal fees there as well, the company is still trying to get out of having to pay legal fees in the Hoehn case in Nevada. As you may recall, Righthaven was ord… Continue reading

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Amazon Silk

Listen to the engineers behind Amazon’s new “Silk” web browser talk about how it uses the cloud to take the load off mobile devices.
Sounds like it does all the asset-requesting for you from the cloud, optimizes it, then sends you down one file that g… Continue reading

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Time Warner Cable CEO Remains In Denial About Cord Cutting

There’s growing evidence that hordes of people are cutting the cord from cable TV, with many realizing that it’s just way too expensive for what they get — and compared to alternative options. But, as they have for years, it appears that the cable ex… Continue reading

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Hurt Locker File Sharing Lawsuit Lists Hockey Stadium IP Address

It’s a bit of a stereotype that Canadians love their hockey. But do they love it so much that they file share while attending hockey games? Recently, the movie studio Voltage Pictures decided to extend its braindead, shortsighted, shakedown of those … Continue reading

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