A recent episode of the CBC radio program “Ideas” (which is often excellent) has an interesting examination of copyright titled “Who Owns Ideas?” I strongly recommend you give it a listen even if you think you don’t care about copyright. You may be surprised at what the government has in store.
In a recent MacLean’s magazine opinion piece, Andrew Potter advocated that the only way to save music was to tax Internet providers. I’d like to link you to the article but the MacLean’s web site is among the worst on the net and apparently does not contain any actual content. (Update: I finally found the article online (thanks Google) here)
Anyhow, here is my reply to this kind of backward thinking… Read more »