Stephen Fry recently gave a speech on behalf of the BBC and he has reproduced it for his podcast as Episode 4: Broadcasting.
You should listen to it for a number of reasons: Stehen Fry is a wonderful speaker and writer, he is an admiringly geeked out technophile and he is probably one of […]

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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 […]

The New York Times reports that veteran commercial producer, audio archivist and media guru, Tony Schwartz, has passed away at the age of 84.
Schwartz was perhaps best known for the famous “Daisy” ad that ran once in the 1964 U.S. presidential campaign and clinched the election for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater.

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But Schwartz was more […]

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 […]

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 […]

Charlie Angus, the NDP member of parliament who is really good at poking Jim “Chickenshit” Prentice in the eye over the pending DMCA copyright bill and Bell Canada’s throttling of traffic, has introduced a private members bill seeking to ensure Net Neutrality as a right for Canadian citizens.

You can find all the details in posts […]

The Canadian government is secretly negotiating via the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to revamp international copyright laws which could make the information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.
Michael Geist reports on this and you can find the leaked document in […]