p2pnet Readers’ Writes, June 3-4
p2pnet news | P2P:- Hi all:
I’m taking a badly needed break for a couple of weeks and I’d like to ask your help to keep p2pnet least partially ticking over.
I’m posting seven files, of which this is the first, and if you wouldn’t mind, if you find stories, links, and so on, you think might interest other people, could you post them as comments?
Ottawa Gal and her husband are going to keep an eye out for spam, etc, and I’ll log on when I can.
Out of interest, on June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, tried to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
And on June 4, 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh established first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina).
Thanks for the help 
And see you full-time again on June 17.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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June 3rd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
An interesting Ars Technica story on Bell Canada throttling.
New filings reveal extent, damage of Bell Canada throttling
Enjoy your break Jon.
SRG (a long time lurker)
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Olivennes wants to export ‘Three Strikes’ madness to world+dog.
Ahh, Denis. You do know that the only people that will like you for that are the dying media cartels.
What a Git.
SRG
June 4th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Another from Ars Technica:
Secret ACTA treaty may include ISP filtering
SRG
June 4th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
1. The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic WANTS YOUR P2P HELP!!
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20588892-CIPPIC-calls-for-submissions-on-P2P-myths-REtraffic-shaping
•Detailed examples of legal uses of P2P.
•Stories of businesses, education institutions, or not-for-profit groups relying on P2P to cut costs or access a broader market.
•Submissions giving strong arguments for the non-discrimination of P2P
•Examples of P2P applications which are “time sensitive” (i.e., real-time, or streaming in nature)
All help is greatly appreciated. Contributors are welcome to PM us, or post in the discussion below.
Thanks for your time,
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic
2. Canadian government shills caught hard at work editing the Canadian Minister of Industry wiki entry.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/04/tech-prentice.html
and
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2999/125/
The government has been editing Minister of Industry Jim Prentice’s Wikipedia entry, removing mentions of the recent copyright-reform controversy and hailing the minister as personifying “experience, confidence and competence, ability and capability.”
While Industry Minister Jim Prentice has sought to project an air of unflappability around the outcry over the Canadian DMCA, it would appear that behind the scenes his staff is working overtime to eliminate any negative comments on Wikipedia.
3. Apple offers movies for Itunes in the UK & Canada
http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/04/movies.at.itunes.canada.uk/
Apple on Wednesday revealed the addition of movies to iTunes for both Canada and the UK, expanding availability past the US for the first time.
4. CSIA fires off letter to the Industry Minister over DMCA style legislation
http://www.softwareinnovation.ca/
the Canadian Software Innovation Alliance (CSIA), a coalition of innovative
companies and professionals who develop, maintain and depend on open source software.
The CSIA’s mandate is to advocate on behalf of its members, and on behalf of all
Canadians, for public policy that will protect innovation and fair competition within the
software industry.
The CSIA is particularly concerned that your departments are intending to implement
legal restrictions on the circumvention of technological protection measures (TPMs) and
digital rights management (DRM) technologies.