copyright
Spore isn't worth buying, but EA only has themselves to blame for that
We’ve all heard of Spore
Goodbye, Bill C-61?
Given the way the political currents are currently going here in Canada, it seems pretty unlikely that bill C-61 will get anywhere. After all, bills and other government business are dropped when parliament is prorogued. And it seems we'll be headed for a federal election this fall, probably on 
White is the new Black
Via Slashdot, news comes about an HBO exec saying that DRM needs a new name. Not only that, but the name that CTO Bob Zitter suggests is laughably Orwellian – "Digital Consumer Enablement". As DRM is anything but empowering, it's obvious that this is one of those many cases where someone tries to cheat others by playing some mind games. Like a drug dealer who makes up a new name for an old substance, it's nothing more than a ruse.
I'd suggest reading the comments on the Slashdot article – the folks there do a much better job of showing up this bald-faced lie than I ever could.
The Canadian DMCA?
A friend of mine e-mailed me and a bunch of other people he knows, informing all us recipients of a recent article about upcoming legislation that could possibly make certain "fair use" tasks no longer legal. He encouraged, in his e-mail, to write MPs to block the bill.
