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Digital Literacy

A Plain Language Guide to the CRTC Rulings Part 1

J. David Ellis | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Fcc, Concentration, Broadband, Resellers, Crtc, Rogers, Tv, Digital Literacy, Bell Canada, Housing Bubble, Data Caps, Canada Business News
J. David Ellis

I've been gathering reactions to last week's CRTC decisions on wholesale rates for Internet access. My takeaway is a lot of people are having trouble understanding what the hell it all means. So in this series of posts I'm going to provide some plain-language context.

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Infringement Assault on TekSavvy: Voltage Trolls Come North

J. David Ellis | Posted 02.13.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Voltage Pictures, Piracy, Teksavvy, Gatekeeping, Digital Literacy, Marc Gaudrault, Bell Canada, Hackers, Canada Business News
J. David Ellis

Note on Monday's Federal Court hearing. Voltage has managed to schedule a hearing at the Federal Court for Monday, December 17, which leaves little time for targeted TekSavvy subscribers to organize their defence. TekSavvy couldn't notify these customers until it had churned through a huge pile of logs, in order to correlate subscribers with the thousands of numeric IP addresses Voltage dumped on them.

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