Archive for June 12th, 2007

Behind the scenes of Canada’s movie piracy law

“Michael Geist’s latest Toronto Star column features a behind-the-scenes look at how Canada got its movie piracy bill based on internal government documents obtained under the Access to Information Act. Few will be shocked to learn that Hollywood lobbyists provided draft legislation months earlier as part of their barrage of lobbying, though the documents show that advisers to the Minister were skeptical that the proposal would accomplish anything…” (Read full article here)

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“Spam king” pleads guilty in U.S. federal court

“It looks like ‘Spam King’ Adam Vitale has finally plead guilty to violation of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 in federal court in New York City. ‘The indictment said that in less than a week in August 2005, Vitale and Moeller sent e-mails on behalf of the informant to more than 1,277,000 addresses of subscribers at AOL, the online division of Time Warner Inc. Vitale will be sentenced on September 13 when he faces a maximum sentence of 11 years in prison. Moeller, who lives in New Jersey, faces the same charge.’…” (Read full article here)

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