Canadian Copywrite Reform

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"Copyright owner rhetoric aside, it is unfortunate that we are also unlikely to see many people actually referring to statistical evidence to support their claims that copyright reform is desperately needed."

It is unfortunate, but that is what happens when you have special interest groups. They're only interested in furthering their cause, and we all know that statistics can be made to say whatever you want them to say.
It looks like this new law is going to take us closer to the American style of copywrite protection (whatever the special interest groups want, forget about the consumers). As is stated in the above post, was there really a need to reform copywrite law here, only if you are the recording industry who will now have all of the things they didn't get the first time around.
Don't get me wrong, I support copywrite as appropriate and with fair use. Illegal file sharing etc is exactly that; illegal. The big problem is that we're slowly losing that fair use and pretty soon we'll only have "fair-to-the-CRIA" use.

PETA on Yahoo! News Photos

PETA on Yahoo! News Photos

This was good for a laught this morning. "The protest, in which three people placed themselves in containers resembling supermarket meat trays, was meant to compare eating meat with cannibalism." Maybe they were aiming this marketing campaign at al the cows that buy beef at the supermarket? That's crazy, cows don't shop at the supermarket... silly PETA. Am I missing the point here? I think someone should stand outside the PETA offices dressed up as a cauliflower to compare PETA strategist's brains to vegetables.

Citi notifies 3.9 million customers of lost data - Consumer Security - MSNBC.com

Citi notifies 3.9 million customers of lost data - Consumer Security - MSNBC.com: "the tapes were lost by the courier UPS Inc. in transit"

Here's an idea... Stop giving these kind of jobs to companies don't care what they're transporting. Make transporting tapes the responsibility of Joe in I.T. and make sure he know his job is on the line if he loses the tapes. If he gets robbed or carjacked or something, obviously that's beyond his control. But he should sure be able to keep track of a box of tapes while taking them to the warehouse.