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It’s a special Bill C-61 Round-Up Day!
Round-Up Day? Yes! The last day of the week where we collect the best or most interesting posts you might have missed from previous days. I’ve been remiss in keeping these pages up to date and for that I […]

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Yup, it’s Round-Up Day here at the ol’ Millsworks blog but instead of giving you a fat list of my past posts here’s my coverage on the newly introduced Canadian Copyright Bill C-61.
We knew it was coming, we knew they were gonna try and sugar-coat it and we […]

You can find the 2 updates
at the end of this post.
It’s not really a Round-Up day but since the Harper government seems determined to coat their reprehensible copyright reform act with copious amounts of their odious slime in order to slip it through Parliament (quite possibly today) I figured we needed a collection of resources […]

So much for not blogging anymore today. Here’s two quick links to posts by Michael Geist:
Bell Hit With Quebec Class Action Over Throttling Practices
A class action lawsuit has been launched against Bel Canada for its admitted practice of throttling internet traffic:

The suit, which is seeking certification on behalf of all provincial subscribers, argues that […]

Susan Crawford wrote a great post today with respect to Bell Canada’s position that they own the internet and thus get to scour every red cent out of it - even if it means fucking everybody else - drawing very accurate comparisons between Bell Canada’s position today with that of AT&T back in the days […]

You should just go read Michael Geist’s blog on a regular basis - but in case you don’t: here’s a quick run down on what he’s been posting lately:

IP Caucus Rolls Out Welcome Mat for the U.S.
Sources indicate that the Parliamentary IP Caucus, co-chaired by Liberal MP Dan McTeague and Conservative Gord Brown, plan […]

Ars Technica reports Apple has just passed Wal-Mart to become the number one retailer of music in the U.S.
And everybody said it wouldn’t work.
Well, everybody in the rotting old asshat end of the music industry anyway. They probably would have figured it out sooner if they didn’t insist on clinging to their dying rip-off […]

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What the hell - it’s the Year Of The Rat.
It’s a Leap Year.
It’s Friday.
It’s Round-Up Day!
There won’t be much commentary on this disparate bunch of crap I’m about to lay on you - just a big ass whack of links to stories that caught my attention and which […]

It ain’t Round-Up Day but at least the heat is back on and now I get to go outside in the frickin’ snow. Wheee!
For those of you remaining inside where it’s nice and cozy - warm your hands (and minds) over these interesting tid-bits:
From the amazing Susan Crawford’s blog: she details (in the […]

Cory Doctorow, the copyfighting champ of the inter-toobs, has not one but two great posts on BoingBoing regarding the impending Canadian DMCA legislation that will throw our country into the dark ages and jam our entire culture into the stinky back pockets of the U.S. media empire.
Doctorow is on a roll here and he is […]