Freedom of expression is a right. It's in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Copyright isn't there; it is a limit on freedom of expression and as such it has much less status.

Of particular interest is his notes on ISP liability in which he comments that as a result of Bill C15-A

If there is child pornography on a Web site, the police have to go to a judge and get a court order, and the operator of the site can have a chance to show cause for leaving the site up, and that all has to happen before the content can be forced to be removed. Privilege holders are claiming that that kind of regime is not good enough for copyright infringement; they demand the ability to have things taken down without a court order, just on the strength of a "verified complaint", DMCA style. So in other words, they are claiming that copyright infringement is worse than child pornography.

(Emphasis mine).

I had been planning on attending but there was a blizzard that day, big things were supposed to happen at work, and I had some house hunting.
1:58:22 PM   []

I've found someone selling them encoded with DIVX but I'd love to be able to watch em on our tv.

Of course I wonder why the makers of Seinfeld (Columbia Tristar) doesn't just release it themselves instead of forcing me to go underground to obtain them.. Oh well. And yes, I I signed the petition.
1:45:14 PM   []

A lot of people like to talk about the honor system/tipping/voluntary payments/patronage, hell there's even an April Fool's joke going around about it today, but let me tell you that very few people have opened their wallets and put their money where their mouths are.

And yes, I can tell you that because we opened our wallets and gave it a shot.

CNN, the New York Times, support from Esther Dyson, the Globe and Mail, Much Music, Wired, Slashdot, you name it, they covered it. All we managed to snatch up for artists was $15,000. Whoopty-do.
12:14:00 PM   []