I am doing some research into Facebook privacy, and stumbled upon this option in the Facebook privacy policy. Users must explicitly opt out of being included in “Social Ads”. For those who are not familiar with this concept, picture your profile mug in a sidebar ad suggesting you heartily endorse this event or product. In
Please see (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) Part 3 ended with the trial judge explaining that copying music was ok, since we Canadians have to pay a tax on blank CDs that is supposed to be distributed to labels to mitigate the monetary loss made possible by the public’s God-given right to do
Part one of this essay ended with the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) was putting forth a motion to force ISPs to give up the names of P2P file-sharers. On this motion, the CRIA provided an affidavit from Gary Millin, President of MediaSentry, a company that specializes in detecting the distribution of materials on P2P
Short answer: yes. Well, it is more accurate to say that file-sharing is not illegal in Canada. In 2005, I wrote and essay: “Copyright v. Privacy: A Review of the Legal War Between Record Labels and File Sharing from a Canadian Perspective”. I am going to review it here, in my blog and discuss what