Rusell McOrmond

Articles by Rusell McOrmond

Political parties and the Private Copying regime

The Canadian Private Copying collective has sent out a press release (PDF from CPCC, covered by FYI music) where they asked the Bloc, Liberal,...

Technology law suggests that conservatives shouldn’t vote Conservative

The Conservative party has released their platform. Various online forums are filled with people who might otherwise vote Conservative, but that are...

Copyright past, copyright present, copyright future, and election 2008

On October 1’st I was invited by the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG) and the Waterloo Students for the Information Commons (WSIC) to...

The success of the Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates advertisements

Most techies have seen both of the advertisements featuring Jerryand Bill, and have read all the commentary about how most people hatedthem. While I...

Free Software and the Canadian Federal Election 2008

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a donor supported charity founded in 1985 and based in Boston, MA, USA. The FSF has a worldwide...

How one techie is thinking thus far about the Canadian General Election

While I have had party membership in the past, I am currently not amember of any party. I’m a person with a technical background...

Green Party on copyright: responses from Dan Grice (Vancouver Quadra candidate)

Last Saturday, independent MP Blair Wilson announced that he will be sitting as a member of the Green Party of Canada.This is historic as...

Canadians fed US-style copyright legislation? I wish!

In an article in p2pnet, Charlie Angus, Digital Spokesperson for the New Democratic Party,said that “Under Stephen Harper, Canadians are being force-fed US-stylecopyright legislation.”...

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