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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 03:24 PM EDT |
Copyright Lobby Demands Rollback of Recent Canadian Reforms in
Secretive Trade Deal
More than ten years of contentious debate over
Canadian copyright
law appeared to come to a conclusion in late June when Bill
C-11
passed its final legislative hurdle and received royal assent. Yet
despite
characterizing the bill as a "vital building block", the
copyright lobby that
pressured the government to impose restrictive
rules on digital locks and
tougher penalties for copyright
infringement is already demanding further
reforms that include
rolling back many key aspects of the original
bill.
Unlike the last round of copyright reform that featured
national
consultations and open committee hearings, my weekly technology
law
column (Toronto
Star
version, homepage
version) notes this
time the lobby groups are hoping to use
secretive trade negotiations to forge
legislative change.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 04:15 PM EDT |
'RPost, a peculiarly-named Los Angeles “startup,” and its founders control
patents that they allege Amazon, Paypal, and Belgian-banking cooperative SWIFT
have violated. These patents are potentially worth billions of dollars because
they may be central to much of the way the online payments industry operates
today. The case has been winding through the courts and if RPost (no relation to
R Kelly) is successful, the impact could be profound'.
'RMail, as owner
of the patents and exclusive rights holder to the provisions of each relating to
electronic payment authentication, used these patents in 2010 to sue several of
the most successful internet companies around, Amazon, Paypal, and SWIFT, for
alleged violations. The case was filed, where else, but in the patent-holder
friendly district of Eastern Texas. To call this anything other than blatant
patent trolling would be a bald-faced lie. Depending on the details of paper
shuffling behind the scenes, it may turn out to be fraudulent as well'. link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 04:16 PM EDT |
Aided by a Prime Minister whose name is Key.
Everyone so dazzled by those
Fed's badges
they forgot whose laws they're supposed to
administer.
New
Zealand Herald
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 05:19 PM EDT |
| http://i.imgur.com/rKRHY.jpg [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 06:59 PM EDT |
| Although I will not dismiss the notion that new display technology, which is
"more difficult" to manufacture is partly responsible for the so called supply crunch, I must say that the
actual reason may be that the newest iOS device did not really wow many. It
certailny did not wow me at all.
Look at it this way:
The only
[consequential] upgrade from the iPhone 4S was the size, processor and camera.
This time, we had a "downgrade", for lack of a better term. I for one, had 4
close freinds pass on the device because of its non-functional map application,
the Lightning connector and confused SIRI. Let's remember too, that Apple's
device launched in two more countries this time round, and 'analysts' (read
"paid pundits"), were expecting Apple to sell between 8 to 10 million
devices. It was disaster. In my area, (NY), several stores had these devices
in stock. There were no lines at all! Even on my lunch break today, an attendant
told me they still had several pallets of these devices in stock. So what supply
crunch are these iPhone folks talking about?
Some have called these maps an
apocalyptic horror show. Others have decided to vent on
Apple's own
site.
Whatever happened to "Apple's attention to detail", if I may ask?
The map software issue is not even alpha quality if you asked me. How can a company as
successful and rich as Apple create whole new towns and an airport where non
existed, and expect its customers to "use it more" since it wil get better, to
paraphrase one Apple executive? They think we have time to debug?
Sorry
readers, for my length, off-topic thread, but I had to say it. take it from me:
Apple's lustre has faded or, is beginning to fade. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 11:32 PM EDT |
A man who can afford to travel across the Pacific for the glory(?)
of
standing in line for one of the first iPhone 5 sold says he'd like
to be an
Australian just for the broadband.
The Australian
Telegraph
BusinessInsider
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| Authored by: Tufty on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 12:09 AM EDT |
This is scary!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F7pYHN9iC9I
Your life en clair
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2012 @ 12:15 AM EDT |
That is the question,
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the SMS spam
Of outrageous fortune seekers, Or by accepting, end them.
isc.sans.edu
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