http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/03/canadas-internet-res.html
It always pleasantly surprises me how rational the Canadian government and people are! They have resisted almost every crackpot law that benefitted Corporations over the people in the last decade. They rejected changing their Copyright laws to match other countries with draconian copyright frameworks, and now they have rejected usage based billing as obtains in Australia and a few other European countries. Way to go Canadians!! :-) HEre's a comment: " It's not just that the CRTC "allowed" UBB, it's that their ruling mandated UBB on the ISPs that bought in bulk from these end-of-the-line telcos if Bell, Rogers et al. used that. cjp is right that we can't be too complacent. Government agencies are blindly siding with business or industry collectives on the first go and only stepping back when public outcry becomes too much. Look at the Copyright Board's blind support of Access Copyright! Their demand for a $45 tariff per university student got the green-light. It was only at the end of December that the Board stepped back from this revolutionary change. Now the old agreement's fees continue while a new agreement is "hammered out." Public opposition was vital in getting the board to step back from the decision, but the battle isn't won. Although the number of universities cutting the Access Copyright agreement all together (since they already license so much content or call on their own open source creativity) gives us hope of something different!" Canada is actually acting on the fact that without public diligence and protest democracies become no different to dictatorships. Their citizens are constantly fighting against corporate interests in their country (and the growing evidence is that this pressure and influence comes from outside their country). Here's hoping the people keep winning ^_^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333954 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
