A Canwest News Service article by Sarah Schmidt discusses how Canada's current Heritage Minister's more modern technology usage makes him likely an "Infringer" under our current backward-facing Copyright law. What remains to be seen is whether he takes the time to understand what copyright reform needs to really be about, and not what the old-economy incumbents have been claiming in lobbying that it is about.
I always hold out for the possibility that as a Conservative he'll respect the property rights of technology owners and instead of legally protecting "DRM" that he'll recognise that we need to legislate against it.
Dr. Polevoy's HealthWatcher.net casualty of DMCA complaint
URGENT:
Bill O'Neill of the CCRG in Ottawa filed a DMCA copyright infringement complaint with my ISP in Utah. They shut all of my web sites down without warning. They are still available in archives for now.
http://tinyurl.com/kuj2dw
That means that all of my websites are down, including the one for my medical office in Waterloo, Ontario.
I have appealed their decision.
Could you send a supporting letter to my ISP and tell them about Bill O'Neill and the fact that we both live in Canada, and that the DMCA is causing grave concerns.
Send your letters of support to sdixon@bluehost.com
and send a copy to me.
The URL that caused the problem is:
http://www.healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/Cancer/CCRG/
My blog is still running that explains a little bit about Mr. O'Neill and the nearly decade long fight that I have been having with this idiot.
http://cancercureresearch.blogspot.com/
Thanks for your help,
Terry Polevoy, MD
drpolevoy@yahoo.com