ramblings Category
Response from a BC MP re: Copyright Act Amendments
By: mike on: Jun 13,2008 In: ramblingsMy friend Sam sent an email to her MP (Dick Harris, Cariboo-Prince George), detailing her concerns regarding the proposed amendments to the Canadian Copyright Act. She has give me permission to post the form-letter response she received:
Dear Samantha,
As an individual who enjoys the arts, as well as, an enthusiast of this new digital age, I [...]
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- Tags: bc, canada, copyright, dmca
Canadian Copyright Act Amendments: Act now or you’ll be a criminal!
By: mike on: Jun 12,2008 In: ramblingsWell it’s all over the news now. Jim Prentice, the Canadian Minister of Industry recently unveiled his proposed amendments to the Canadian Copyright Act, and they’re terrible. The amendments are even worse than the US DMCA, and if enacted into law, would make it illegal to do things like watching an out-of-region DVD, or even [...]
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- Tags: canada, copyright, dmca, politics
Wow, one of my photos went viral or something…
By: mike on: May 14,2008 In: ramblings, vancouver, webI was browsing through my Flickr page the other day and noticed that one of my photos has over 30,000 views! I took this photo on Robson St. in Vancouver, back in 2002. Nat and I had flown out here for a week to take a look around and see if Vancouver was somewhere we’d [...]
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- Tags: haha, photo, vancouver
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My name is Mike Kelly. I'm a Vancouver-based technologist and non-practicing physicist. strangely entangled is my home base on the internet. If you look hard enough you'll find some blog postings, articles, photos and other stuff I thought might be interesting
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