http://peterkieser.com Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:04:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thank you for sharing your concern over Bill C-61, An Act to amend the Copyright Act. The NDP is strongly opposed to this bill and we are calling on MPs from other parties to listen to their constituents and join us in the growing chorus against it. Rather, we are ... http://peterkieser.com/2008/06/19/jack-layton-response-to-the-canadian-dmca-bill-c-61/ Layered Technologies, Inc. has decided to raise their prices again. The other day I woke up to an e-mail with the subject "Layered Technologies Pricing Update - Effective July 1, 2008", stating that they would be increasing the price of each of my works' servers by $28 dollars a month, ... http://peterkieser.com/2008/06/02/layered-technologies-dedicated-hosting-provider-to-avoid/ The Canadian DMCA has been placed on paper as expected, please consider writing your MP and visiting Prentice's open house if you can. http://peterkieser.com/2007/12/07/canadian-dmca-placed-on-paper/ Michael Geist has launched a Facebook "campaign" called Fair Copyright Canada aimed at informing the average joe about the up and coming Canadian copyright "reform". He focuses on helping people contact their member of parliament and inform friends and family about the downsides of the new copyright reform legislation in ... http://peterkieser.com/2007/12/06/fair-copyright-for-canada-on-facebook/ Google has announced that they have included OpenID commenting support on Blogger in Draft. OpenID comments will work in both "Anyone" and "Registered Users" modes. They will be testing it on draft before moving it to the main site, and plan to have support for OpenID provider on Blogger (!). http://peterkieser.com/2007/11/30/blogger-and-openid-for-commenting/ Yesterday I blogged about the Canadian DMCA, and the effects it will have on the Canadian consumer -- I also recommend that you write your Member of Parliament (MP) regarding the issue, here are some ideas that you can include in a letter to your MP (Modified list courtesy of ... http://peterkieser.com/2007/11/29/ways-to-write-your-mp-about-copyright-reform/ Michael Geist reports that the "Canadian" (and I put Canadian in quotes because it's exactly the same as the DMCA without fair-use provisions -- an American entertainment industry bill) copyright legislation update is going to be most likely fast tracked in the new year and supported by the Conservative and ... http://peterkieser.com/2007/11/29/canadian-dmca-worst-copyright-legislation-in-the-first-world/ The Ottawa Citizen confirms that the revised Copyright act "will be tabled in the next four weeks", this is a direct result of increased pressure from the United States and lobbyist organizations. Increasing reliance on intellectual property by strengthing copyright laws for large corporations is not a sure way to economic ... http://peterkieser.com/2007/11/17/canadian-copyright-bill-update-just-weeks-away/ Common Ground has a great article by Vancouver artist Kimberly Baker focusing on the impact of Bill C-47, the recently enacted Olympic marks bill. http://peterkieser.com/2007/08/02/11/ A contest the CBC is sponsoring: The contest is for a Wish that all Canadians want. More than 2000 individuals (more than any other wish) have "wished" for an abortion free Canada. The rules of the contest are the wish with the most supporters gets big time broadcast coverage on the CBC. Now, ... http://peterkieser.com/2007/06/19/great-canadian-wish-list-pro-choice-womens-rights/