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Mass copyright lawsuits on Internet users in Canada? Join Jason Koblovsky as he interviews communications professor and blogger David Ellis on what this means for the telecom industry and users, as well as what’s happening with the Teksavvy vs Voltage case. David Ellis’s blog “Life on the Broadband Internet”: http://www.davidellis.ca/ Full Virtual Revolution Series can be found here: http://canadiantechnetwork.podbean.com/category/virtual-revolution-in-canada/

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Topics discussed: Federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews to step down for an appointment in the Manitoba Court of Appeal leaving the online spying bill up for a new messenger, and or shelved indefinitely.  The Federal Trade Commission in the US looking into online privacy violations of companies targeting children.  Privacy Commissioner of Canada launches new online complaint form. IDC reporting shipments of PC's to increase very slightly in 2012, Apple vs Samsung US court case and the effects of patent lawsuits on digital and tech innovation, Windows 95 turns 17. For more information on this podcast please write to: cdntechnetwork@gmail.com

Topics discussed in this podcast:  Microsoft has to now rename its Metro GUI due to trademarks on the word "Metro", Tech Journalist Matt Honan apple id hacked and found all his apple hardware remotely wiped, Routers gets hacked questions remains whether the Syrian government had a hand in the hack to try and influence public opinion, Internet archive of public domain available through P2P hits 1 million files, French Government maybe getting rid of the 3 strikes law, Nasa makes history with Curiosity with Canadian content on board, Rogers provides a link for customers to find out if they are still being throttled the link is below: http://promo.orderrogers.ca/trafficmanagement/en/?cm_mmc=Redirects-_-Consumer_Traffic_ENG-_-Traffic_2012-_-traffic

Current events topics discussed in this weeks current events show are: ACTA and CETA, last weeks Supreme Court fair use rulings,  transparency of the Canadian Copyright Board and copyright law, UK blocking of the Pirate Bay, Canadian based software helping the people of Syria beat Internet censorship,  RIM's $147 million deeper in the hole due to a court case loss,  announcement of Windows 8 release, and apple confirms Ipad Mini.

Join Jason Koblovsky as he interviews award winning author and journalist Peter Nowak, and co-founder of the Canadian Gaming Organization Teresa Murphy.  Topics discussed in this feature are the future of the Internet, CRTC's ITMP policy, E3, Call of Duty,  Humans 3.0, World of Warcraft CRTC complaint, and female gamers. Subscribe with Itunes by clicking on the "Add to Itunes" button on the left hand side of this page.  You can also direct download the MP3 file by right clicking the "Audio MP3" button below the flash player in this post, and select "Save target as".  Feel free to post the MP3 to your websites, blogs etc.  Please provide a link back to this post if you do post the MP3.