Saturday, March 7, 2015

Tough on criminals and terrorists, but soft of crime and terrorism

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Out of interest I subscribe to the email mailing lists of all 4 Canadian parties with members in the house of Commons (I have no interest in...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Samsung, the Harper Government, and Technology Property Rights

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I have found the media attention around the recognition that manufacturers like Samsung can spy on technology owners to be interesting. Aft...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Broken Broadcaster streaming websites

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If you haven't tried to use them, you might wonder why the websites that Canadian broadcasters (or most often, the BDUs that own them) o...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Evidence suggests broadcasters like the BBC don't want our money

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Some copyright holders and their lobbyists claim the reason people infringe Copyright is because they don't want to pay, and that copyr...
Friday, January 2, 2015

Legitimacy of new TV options CraveTV (Bell) and Shomi (Rogers, Shaw)

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As Shomi received a lot of advertising in recent months I have been asked my opinion on it. I'm known as someone who has strong opinion...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

For better or worse: 10 things that will be gone in our lifetime?

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I was sent one of those  10 things that will be gone in our lifetime  list from a family member.  There are a variety of   (plagarized) ver...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Doctor Who fans must wait or be forced into an "infringe or be infringed" decision by BBC

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The following is a comment I added to a Kasterborous editorial: iTunes, BBC? Really? This is not a question of money for me — I have spent...