New Saga CD
Saga has released a new album, entitled “20/20
The new CD will be released on July 24th in Canada
CBC Television To Stop Analog Services
CBC Television will be ending their analogue services through-out Canada at the end of this month.
This means individuals that tune into their non-digital Over The Air broadcasts will loose access to CBC and Radio-Canada’s programming.
CBC estimates that this 620 transmitter service reached just 1.7 percent of the population and believes the $10 million expenditure should be diverted to programing.
CBC and Radio Canada will remain accessible on cable and satellite, and are currently broadcasting Over The Air in digital in Canada’s major metropolitan centers.
Yahoo Users – Change Your Passwords
It appears that an older part of Yahoo’s systems had been left exposed resulting in a security breach that could have compromised over 400,000 accounts.
To change your password, login and click on your user name on the top left of your screen. You will be given an option to change your password in the following screen, after having been prompted to login again.
Click here for information of how to create a strong password for Yahoo.
No Royalties On Music Previews
The Supreme Court Of Canada has ruled that music previews comply to the definition of Fair Dealing in the Copyright Act and cannot therefore be subjected to the collection of royalties.
“Research” need not be for creative purposes only. Permitting only creative purposes to qualify as “research” would ignore the fact that one of the objectives of the Copyright Act is the dissemination of the works themselves. Limiting “research” to creative purposes would also run counter to the ordinary meaning of “research”, which includes many activities that do not require the establishment of new facts or conclusions. The fair dealing exception must not be interpreted restrictively and “research” must be given a large and liberal interpretation.
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, Canadian Recording Industry Association and CMRRA-SODRAC Inc had wished to collect royalties from internet providers for both previews and full music downloads, the latter also having been dismissed by another ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada today.
These royalties would have resulted in major expenditures for internet providers, who would have passed these on to the consumer.
Wi-Fi With Your Double Double ?
Tim Hortons has announced yesterday that it will be introducing free wireless internet access to 90% of their stores by September.
This service will be provided by Bell. Additional details can be found in the July 5th, 2012 press release.
Important Warning : DNSChanger Virus
In November 2011, The FBI charged seven individuals from Estonia who concocted a scheme to redirect internet traffic through their web sites to collect affiliation fees.
Through email attachments and web sites, these individuals infected an unknown amount of computers with a virus that changed the DNS settings of computers, rerouting them to a series of web sites that have since been disabled by the FBI during Operation Ghost Click.
Unfortunately the FBI will cease to operate their clean DSN servers on July 9th and computers that remain infected with the DNSchanger virus will no longer be able to access the internet.
To check whether your computer is infected, you can visit the Canadian DNS OK web site by July 8th. And if you are infected removal instructions are available from the DNS Changer Working Group.