Bell has stated that they would be phasing out throttling in a letter to its business partners :
“Effective November 2011, new links implemented by Bell to augment our DNS network may not be subject to Technical Internet Traffic Management Practices (ITMP).”
The letter then continues to mention that there will be higher speeds for users, including users who use peer to peer services.
Just thought I’d bump an interesting documentary on record collectors called “Vinyl“, which will air tonight on TVO at 9 PM Eastern and tomorrow at 12 AM Eastern.
It is also available for viewing online by Canadians via the TVO web site.
Bill C-11 is scheduled to be debated in the House Of Commons today, apparently under time restraints according to the Projected Order Of Business.
Hopefully the questions on the technological protection measures will be blunt and to the point :
The Private Copying section of our Copyright Act distinguished private use from piracy and in my opinion the technical protection measures provisions in Bill C-11 are a step back.
Here is a short list of Canadian groups that are against the technological protection measure provisions in Bill C-11 :
All of the parties in opposition in Parliament had voiced concerns about these provisions on November 2nd, 2010.
There’s no way around it. Lawful access will be costly to consumers in Canada.
The internet providers do not have the necessary technology and manpower to give law enforcement in Canada real time access to internet communications, especially the smaller internet providers. And these extra expenditures will be passed on to Canadians.
We are talking about technology used to distinguish criminal activity from normal internet traffic and according to Statistic Canada‘s Canadian Internet Use Survey, 79% of Canadian households accessed the internet in 2010.
The task is not only overwhelming but could possibly be open to abuse and security breaches.
After all, we are talking about individual internet providers here, some of which use different technologies to secure their networks. And I’m sure there are plenty of identity thieves that would love to access the weaker of these networks, some of which are probably tied to the criminal organizations our law enforcement is trying to expose with this legislation.
The 2011 Canadians and Privacy Survey conducted by Harris/Decima for The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada found that 8 out of 10 Canadians opposed this legislation because of numerous concerns about privacy and security. And in 2009, Statistics Canada found that 48% of Canadian consumers were concerned about credit card purchases online.
Is this really the time to make consumers nervous about security and privacy online ?
Canada Post has added their suggested mailing dates for the 2011 Holiday Season to their site. Click here for details.