Sitemap - 2008 - Russell's Lifelong Learning

How to get to my Dream Job from here?

The GNU Affero General Public License and "DRM"

The success of the Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates advertisements

Free Software and the Canadian Federal Election 2008

How one techie is thinking thus far about the 2008 Canadian General Election

Canadians fed US-style copyright legislation? I wish!

Green Party on copyright: responses from Dan Grice (Vancouver Quadra candidate)

Predictable positions from subset of stakeholders at Brussels telecommunication/copyright event.

FACIL launches lawsuit against Quebec government to close loophole

What would an “interoperable” or “open source” DRM system look like?

Bill C-61 grants new “copyright” related rights to non-copyright related rights-holders?

(Digital) Locks are multipurpose tools, and can be used or abused

2008 Couchiching conference opening keynote by Bill Buxton

Open Access textbooks, provincial ministers of education and Access Copyright

US appeals court confirms that conditions of a liberal FLOSS license are enforceable

Ongoing legal study of “technological measures” done without understanding technology?

Access and use “technological measures” - a legal distinction without a technological difference?

Does DRM and anti-circumvention legislation increase unauthorized P2P?

Copyright: locks, levies, lawsuits or licensing? Part 4: licensing

Copyright Q&A with Tom King, NDP candidate for Guelph

Copyright Q&A with Michael Byers, presumptive NDP candidate for Vancouver Center

Copyright: locks, levies, lawsuits or licensing? Part 3: lawsuits

Copyright: locks, levies, lawsuits or licensing? Part 2: levies

Blogging is not like traditional media - Part 1

Copyright: locks, levies, lawsuits or licensing? Part1: locks

Where is that “buy me now” button for Copyright?

Rush, Ayn Rand, and the “Conservative” party’s copyright bill

A first look at Canada’s “Born in the USA” Copyright bill.

51’st State: It’s US vs U.S. in the battle for Canadian Sovereignty

Dan McTeague wants gas prices down, copyright prices up?

New media broadcasting online consultation: What is new media broadcasting?

Industry Minister Jim Prentice sidesteps question on counterfeit treaty and Copyright bill

Little Brother Audio book: Audible vs eMusic vs Zipidee

Old economy vs new economy — a battle between Canadian business coalitions.

Impressions of the Net Neutrality Rally.

OGwifi at Netneutralityrally.ca

Politicians will be politicians: Obama’s technology policy not as good as advertised?

Events next week bring together related policy issues

Clarity would go a long way to calm CopyFight.

Industry Committee study on Science and Technology is underway

Software Patents and Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) (Part 1)

Fake Facebook login phishing passwords

President and CEO of Hydro Ottawa responds to questions about sale of Telecom Ottawa

More Bell Canada misinformation and misdirection in attempt to justify questionably lawful throttling

And then there was two: Bell Canada seeks to wipe out ISP competitors

Separating the competitive access issues from the Net Neutrality issues.

Canada’s next great prime-time television experience — throttled by Bell

The engineering of a political problem

Why it is important to participate in the study by parliament’s Industry Committee

An ideal future communications infrastructure, how do we get there, and what is stopping us!

GNU General Public License considered very strong, still not challenged in court

Trying to understand parliamentarians’ misunderstanding of core new technology issues

Copyright as part of a debate on eastern vs western censorship?

Lawrence Lessig and the Change Congress movement: change from within?

Lies, Damned lies, and IIPA/BSA/etc statistics.

Copyright is yet another place where Google and Microsoft are competing.

Security in transparency and accountability: Linux kernel root exploit

Hill Times Letter: Canadian Copyright law not out of step with international norms

Does software piracy disclose a ‘generation divide’, and is this a problem?

Can virtualization help with bigger problems like climate change?

Technical Protection Measures (TPMs) and Educational Use of the Internet

The needs of professional writers, and why their current proposals will backfire.

Analyzing when copyright levies are a good idea, and when they are a very bad idea.

Copyright lobby to IT sector: It’s all your fault! In some cases it is.

Copyright protesters got Industry Minister Jim Prentice’s attention: now what?

Thoughts on Bill Gates eventual “retirement”

Even in the “DRM” debate, Content is not King.

We’re not thieves. We just can’t read contracts (McAfee and Open Source)

When a hardware and software hacker meets lawyers and policy wonks.