In a very sad message, now the only one remaining on his blog, US copyright lawyer William Patry explains why he felt the need to close it.
Reasons: "1. The Inability or Refusal to Accept the Blog for What it is: A Personal Blog", "2. The Current State of Copyright Law is too depressing".
I'm not a laywer, and don't have interesting clients like Google, so I don't have personal experience with the first reason. I very much understand the second reason, and find it hard to be up-beat about the future knowledge economy and the ability of Canadians to participate given the nonsense direction that ill-informed politicians want to take copyright, patent, trademark and related laws.
Update: Michael Geist blogs about why Canadians should feel a bit optimistic.