The link to ruinediphone.com, aka fuckyourogers.com,
has been attracting a lot of attention with close to 30,000 angry citizens signing the online petition expressing their outrage over the usurious Rogers/Fido voice and data plans for the iPhone in Canada.
While it is doubtful the delivery of the petition on July 11 will actually result in Ted Rogers […]

Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing posted about Matt Mason’s Pirate’s Dilemma, a book about our current culture of piracy. Seems the book is being turned into a series with the help of Jesse Alexander (”Heroes” and “Lost”) and here’s the trailer:

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Cheers.
P. S. Today is a holiday here in Canada and that means I […]

I’ve mentioned George Carlin a few times in these pages. Here he is for a well deserved encore.
It’s all about context:

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Cheers

As posted by Cory Doctorow over on BoingBoing the folks at Open Source Cinema have put their latest PSA against Bill C-61, the Canadian DMCA, which is given freely for distribution and you can even re-edit it and add your own shit and what ever else you want to do.
Here it is:

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And just so you […]

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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 […]

Head on over to Michael Geist’s blog and have a read on how the U.S. media lobby and political pressure from Washington was exerted on the compliant Harper government to create Bill C-61 - Canada’s own DMCA.

Sources say that emboldened by the successful campaign for anti-camcording legislation, U.S. officials upped the ante at the Security […]

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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 […]

I found out about the National Conference for Media Reform through Susan Crawford’s blog. She spoke there yesterday and today Bill Moyers gave his talk and I’ve posted it here for you.

By all means check out the full site for the conference because it’s informative and inspiring. Moyers, of course, possesses the ability […]

In his 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man, famed media scholar Marshall McLuhan wrote these words:

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights […]