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End of Online Anonymity in Canada?
boochy writes "Are we close to losing our anonymity online in Canada? As Angela Pacienza writes in a National Post article; "The record industry's attempts to sue people who share music online threaten to change the widely held expectation that everyone's anonymous when surfing the Internet, lawyers representing the public interest argued Monday."
This is a very interesting article that shows how much the lawyers representing the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic are trying their best to protect our privacy online."
You filthy Americans lose more freedoms every day and you wi....er....wait.....
Key word is "attempts." Each time they've tried the ISPs have told them to hit the bricks. YAWN. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
What? End of my anonymity? But I just paid $199 for my computer to stop broadcasting an ip address!
Don't no about hour anonymity, but we shore seem to be loosing hour ability to use the write words when we right.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
If someone believes they are completely anonymous while simply surfing around, they should be dense enough to think a lawsuit is just some legally mandated article of clothing.
Karma: Terrible
And as I'm Canadian, you'll never who I am to lower my karma! Hahahahah!
They're letting anonymous Canadians loose? RUN TO THE HILLS!! "But they're coming from the hills" Run AWAY from the hills! If you see a hill, run in the other direction!
does this mean that canadians are now browsing /. with a -1 mod to a/c posts?
and if you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn...
The author of this post proves it
We've all known, especially those of us with static IPs, that the Internet isn't so anonymous. Anyone who cares badly enough could probably find out who was hiding behind that IP address to download Britney's latest single (ooh! the scandal!). But the article isn't talking about /.ers; it's about Average Joe Canadian. Hey, since it's frickin' cold in Canada, does anybody want to go into business selling tinfoil-lined ski hats?
"Den som vover mister Fodfaeste et Oieblik; den som ikke vover mister Livet." -Soren Kierkegaard
Those guys with 'CIA' on their shirts.
Having anonyimity in Canada is like wearing a ski mask to an adult theater; It's great that nobody knows who you are, but nobody's really looking at you because they're all staring at the guys on horses...
well, it's nothing one behind the ear wouldn't cure
that looked to the topic and read:
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"End of Online anomalies in Canada?"
so sad, I though they just unpluged the cable over there and then realized we were talking about losing (whatever this means) Anonymity
...when they started making your computer broadcast its internet address to the world. Until they fix this, we will never have privacy.
I just checked, my IP is 192.168.0.2 - I will post anonymously so that that I cannot be traced back.
Keep wardriving!
Kind of like the fact it took me all of 30 seconds to figure out your a BSD fan/administrator from NY? Hmmm, wonder how I guessed..
Mod +5 Drunk
Gee, my former employer had to lay off 20 people (including me) because the privacy law meant that they could no longer sell access to the data they collected. They wound up shutting down the entire department.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
I've been paying this god-damn "pirate" tax for YEARS now. Doesn't *PAYING*FOR*IT* make these claims of IP Theft kind of moot?
Welcome to socialism, my friend, where the main service the state provides you with is lightening your wallet.
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