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What the MPAA wants from Obama: 3 strikes, Canada crackdown

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has supplied its political wish list to the Obama transition team, and thanks to new transition team policies, that means the MPAA has shared its agenda with everyone on the Internet. “Graduated response” rules are praised, anti-camcording rules are paramount, and Canada and Spain are two of the countries that need to be singled out for “priority trade policy attention.”

The other controversial bit comes right at the end, when the MPAA offers up its 2009 country blacklist: Canada, China, India, Mexico, Russia, and Spain. Canada isn’t normally thought of as a piracy haven, but it has been on the hit list of IP groups for some time; even video game companies have demanded that the country take action to crack down on pirates.

Posted on 10 December '08 by , under Random. No Comments.

Ted Rogers dies at 75

Canadian media magnate Ted Rogers, founder and CEO of Rogers Communications, has died.

Rogers, 75, died at his Toronto home early Tuesday surrounded by loved ones, said a statement from the company’s board of directors. He had recently been admitted to hospital for a cardiac condition.

Posted on 2 December '08 by , under Random. No Comments.

Stephen Hawking named to Canadian research post

Internationally renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has been appointed to the post of distinguished research chair at a quantum theory and cosmology institute founded by Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis.

Hawking will conduct regular stays at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, starting in the summer of 2009, the institute said in a statement.

Posted on 1 December '08 by , under Random. No Comments.