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Q & A With Canada's Michael Geist

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fireside-chats dept.

Torrentz writes "P2PNet is running a question and answer session with Canada's Michael Geist, a leading Internet and copyright expert. Geist discusses P2P, the music business, and the future direction of copyright law." From the interview: "My focus has traditionally been on Internet issues and I'm very active on privacy, spam, Internet governance issues. The growing attention to copyright merely reflects its critical importance to the Internet and to creativity and culture more generally."

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  1. Re:finally get to a thread early enough to moderat by quokkapox · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude, it's Friday night. You're reading and posting to slashdot. You need to get a life. Oh wait...

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    it's a blue bright blue Saturday hey hey
  2. Re:finally get to a thread early enough to moderat by Doolspin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You got modded, off topic!

    Zing!

  3. Hey dorks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get back to WoW and jerking off!

  4. that's karma SLUT to you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Geist:
    there are many groups (EFF, CDT, Public Knowledge, ACLU, EPIC, IP Justice, etc) that work in the area.

    Electronic Frontier Foundation

    Center for Democracy & Technology

    Public Knowledge

    American Civil Liberties Union

    Electronic Privacy Information Center

    IP Justice

    etc

  5. Re:finally get to a thread early enough to moderat by bjpirt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and then instead of waiting until there is you post now so you can't

    ah well

  6. Re:Experts by Literaphile · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What makes you an expert? You don't even know how to sign up for an account on Slashdot!

  7. Re:finally get to a thread early enough to moderat by wadiwood · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    something I have an opinion on...

    Should have written...

    something I can understand...

    half the topics in here make no sense to me, especially the ones about games consoles. Most of the time I won't/can't moderate because I don't understand the comments. I notice this doesn't stop very many other people from moderating.

    And my comment deserved "off topic".

    My opinion: The internet is very cool and I like it and I spend far too much time on it.

    And - it is Saturday afternoon around here, not Friday night - which I spent dissecting a friends computer and backing up their data. Diagnosis - something busted - motherboard, bios or ram. Powers up all fans work, Phoenix bios - no beeps, no video, No bios messages, DVD/CD players won't open, floppy disk box not checked, can't boot from floppy or CD or DVD, and all hard disks work in a different machine, all periperals work with other machines. Not sure there is value trying to further diagnose a 1998 PC when getting new bits would be more efficient.

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    -- it must be true, it's on the internet.