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Do-Not-Call List: One year old …

Posted in filesharing on October 13th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- This month marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of Canada’s do-not-call list. Over the past 12 months, millions of Canadians have registered their numbers on the list and filed hundreds of thousands of complaints with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, which is tasked with enforcing the law. While the CRTC has found itself subject to considerable criticism for investigating only a small percentage of complaints and levying just a handful of fines for do-not-call violations, a review of tens of thousands of complaints obtained under the Access to Information Act reveals a potentially bigger problem.

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Canadian anti-spam déjà vu

Posted in Software, filesharing on October 5th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The introduction last spring of Bill C-27 — the Electronic Commerce Protection Act — represented the culmination of years of effort to address concerns that Canada is rapidly emerging as a spam haven.  Industry Minister Tony Clement’s anti-spam bill has steadily made its way through the legislative process, with the Standing Committee on Industry likely to conduct its final “clause by clause” review over the next two weeks. Although support for anti-spam legislation would seemingly be uncontroversial, various business groups have mounted a spirited attack against the bill, claiming requirements to obtain to user consent before sending commercial email will create new barriers to doing business online.  The Conservative MPs on the committee have remained supportive of the bill, yet Liberal MPs have expressed growing concern about some of the bill’s provisions. A close examination reveals that the bill sets reasonable limits for online marketing consistent with laws found in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.  In fact, there are four major caveats to the consent requirement

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Canadian anti-spam déjà vu

Posted in Software, filesharing on October 5th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The introduction last spring of Bill C-27 — the Electronic Commerce Protection Act — represented the culmination of years of effort to address concerns that Canada is rapidly emerging as a spam haven.  Industry Minister Tony Clement’s anti-spam bill has steadily made its way through the legislative process, with the Standing Committee on Industry likely to conduct its final “clause by clause” review over the next two weeks. Although support for anti-spam legislation would seemingly be uncontroversial, various business groups have mounted a spirited attack against the bill, claiming requirements to obtain to user consent before sending commercial email will create new barriers to doing business online.  The Conservative MPs on the committee have remained supportive of the bill, yet Liberal MPs have expressed growing concern about some of the bill’s provisions. A close examination reveals that the bill sets reasonable limits for online marketing consistent with laws found in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.  In fact, there are four major caveats to the consent requirement

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Canadian broadband speed ‘lousy’

Posted in filesharing on October 2nd, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Research teams from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and the University of Oviedo’s Department of Applied Economics (supported by Cisco) have released a new study on global broadband quality. Researchers analyzed approximately 24 million broadband speed test records from Speedtest.net from May to July of this year. The Canadian rankings are lousy given that the country aspires to be viewed as a global leader.

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Canadian broadband speed ‘lousy’

Posted in filesharing on October 2nd, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Research teams from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and the University of Oviedo’s Department of Applied Economics (supported by Cisco) have released a new study on global broadband quality. Researchers analyzed approximately 24 million broadband speed test records from Speedtest.net from May to July of this year.

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Copyright consultation submissions on the way

Posted in filesharing on September 26th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | P2P |  Politics:- On Thursday, “I’ve been receiving daily emails from Canadians asking if I know why their copyight consultation submission has not been posted” said Michael Geist .  “The website currently includes some submissions for every day the consultation was open (September 15th), yet there are thousands of submissions that are still not up.” Then yesteray, “I spoke earlier today with an official at Industry Canada regarding the thousands of missing copyright consultation submissions,” he wrote in a follow-up , going »»» I was advised that there was a huge spike of submissions toward the very end of the consultation period.  There were slightly over 8,100 submissions, a huge number in comparison with virtually any other government consultation in recent memory (consultations typically draw 50 to 100 responses). The government is committed to posting all submissions in HTML format due to access concerns.  Since many submissions arrived in PDF form, there is considerable coding work underway.

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Copyright consultation submissions on the way

Posted in filesharing on September 26th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | P2P |  Politics:- On Thursday, “I’ve been receiving daily emails from Canadians asking if I know why their copyight consultation submission has not been posted” said Michael Geist .  “The website currently includes some submissions for every day the consultation was open (September 15th), yet there are thousands of submissions that are still not up.” Then yesteray, “I spoke earlier today with an official at Industry Canada regarding the thousands of missing copyright consultation submissions,” he wrote in a follow-up , going »»» I was advised that there was a huge spike of submissions toward the very end of the consultation period.  There were slightly over 8,100 submissions, a huge number in comparison with virtually any other government consultation in recent memory (consultations typically draw 50 to 100 responses).

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What’s with the Copyight Consultation Submissions?

Posted in filesharing on September 25th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | P2P |  Politics:- “I’ve been trying to contact the Copyright Policy Branch at Heritage to no avail regarding my own submission dated 07-09-2009,” says Marc in a comment to Michael Geist ’s post wondering what’s happened to the Copyight Consultation Submissions. “Since Tuesday, a daily voice mail message requesting an update has gone unanswered,” says Marc.

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Domain names, not door prizes

Posted in Uncategorized on September 23rd, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P:- The Canadian Internet Registration Authority, the agency that administers the dot-ca domain name, holds its annual general meeting in Toronto later this week.  Attendees will vie for door prizes and hear from executives about the growing number of Canadian domain name registrations, the robust financial health of the organization, and a small list of corporate by-law amendments.  Yet as CIRA moves into its second decade, the promise of a leading Internet voice in Canada and an active, engaged membership is gradually fading away. Engaging Canadians was viewed as a top priority during the organization’s early years (I was a board member from 2001-06).  Meetings were held in communities across the country in an effort to educate Canadians on the dot-ca and to encourage participation in Internet governance issues.  The annual general meeting was webcast to ensure all Canadians could attend, even if only virtually. While CIRA never managed to become a household name – many registrants simply want their website or email to work without regard for bigger policy issues – it could count on hundreds of Canadians to vote for the board of directors, participate in consultations, and show their interest in how Canada’s domain name space should be managed.

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