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Preamble

• Just Anonymous revealing the identity of Vic Toews secret mistress, is all…

Digital Rights & Wrongs

• United Nations to take control of the internets? Hang on a minnit.
• EU balks at ACTA.
• Have I got an internship for you…

Cana-duh

• Vic Toews can’t read. Or doesn’t.
• Access Copyright, you so crazy.
• Alberta MPP has got some crazy ideas about roaming charges.

Goin’ Mobile

• WIND & Public Mobile play hardball with the feds.
• Mozilla (web) app store on the way.
• Zomg, Android/Ubuntu NERDGASM!!1!

AppleAppleApple

• Google’s iPhone tracking.
• iPad to get Shanghaied?
• Be like Mike — Daisey, that is.

Tired Old Media

• Game-changing, huh? Let’s discuss.

Pew-Pew!

• In a way, doctors are hackers too.
• All your Pinterest pics belong to us.
• His guiding hand. Wait, who? What?
• Need an accountant for tax season? There’s an app for that.
• “Honey, we’re out of house cartridges…”

Shout-outs

• This week we made some dude’s paper.li — clearly we have to do better…
• Thanks to our retweeters, anyway.

Music

• Tonight we remember Chris Reimer with an entirely unauthorized broadcast of Black Rice, a track from his band Women.

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Cana-duh

• “Stand with us or with the child pornographers…”
• Twitter account goes all human flesh search engine on MP Vic Toews.
• So what’s actually in Bill C-30?

Copyfight

• Tens of thousands take to the streets of Europe to protest ACTA; here’s a country-by-country breakdown of the numbers.
• And here’s the response from EU Parliament President Martin Schulz.

Goin’ Mobile

• Canada’s newly competitive cell phone market at risk, says newspaper owned by company that also owns Bell Mobility.
• Tomia Honen lays out 2011 worldwide mobile industry by the numbers. Who is Tomia Honen…?

AppleAppleApple

• AppleAppleAppleAppleSony.
• FLQ audits Foxconn — FLA, I mean…
• Jobs gets a posthumous Grammy.

Tired Old Media

• Crushed filmmaker: “This is why I pirate…”
• Ah, so Disney owns Marvel now? That explains this.

Pew-Pew!

• Copyrighting a catch-phrase? That’s Linsane ©…
• Bitcoin goes bust.
• This one ticks all the boxes… for the Toronto Sun.
• If you pay for it they will keep making more of it!

Shout-outs

• Someone isn’t a fan of 8-bit electro. Point taken.
• Thanks too, to our retweeters.

Music

• This week it’s Ben Kweller with his track, “Mean to Me”.

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Preamble

• That was Kim Dotcom’s head of security, Wayne Tempero, talking to a Kiwi news anchor.

Copyfight

• RIAA goes batshit insane.
• Here’s a novel idea: Target politicians, not Hollywood.
• Case in point.

Cana-duh

• Surprise surprise… Debate on C-11 “to be limited“.
• CRIA says C-11 needs more SOPA.
• At what price, TPP?

Goin’ Mobile

• Big companies, the military look beyond BlackBerry.
• Nokia’s “philosophy” on conflict minerals.
• Upstart carrier WIND Mobile nabs 67k new subs over holidays.

AppleAppleApple

• The engage-o-meter is through the roof on this one…
• Apple has a fanboi problem? GET OUT!
• BCE & Rogers bend over, spread cheeks for Apple TV.

Pew-Pew!

• Your weekly dose of cyberwar rhetoric.
• Of Path, Pinterest and privacy.
• Rogers: We’ll stop throttling sometime this year.
• A case for unlocked data sticks…
• UK remains realm of the fuckbags.
• StatsCan makes good on its promise to release 2011 Census data.

Shout-outs

• I’ll gladly take my lumps from Steve Czajka.
• Thanks to our retweeters, too.

Music

• Top of the charts on Radio Reddit this week is Petriform, with their (his/her?) track, I-5 Night.

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Censored

• Twitter to selectively censor tweets by country.
• Google paves the way for a not so World Wide Web.
• Fight back with this WordPress plugin!

Copyfight

• Pirate Bay founders officially fucked (but the torrents keep seeding).
• Hollywood cries poor (but their bank accounts keep a-greening).
• “You wouldn’t download a car…” But soon you might be able to.

Cana-duh

• The fight for mobile rights … to broadcast an American football game.
• Ontario teens send Lego man into space. Good for them.

Goin’ Mobile

• So Currie saw Blood In The Mobile last night…

AppleAppleApple

• WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CARRIERS?!1!

Tired Old Media

• Monty Python to reunite for “CGI & live action farce“.
• JoBlo something something.

Pew-Pew!

• Oh look, the author of SOPA is a copyright violator.
• And Rogers says truth-in-advertising law violates its freedom of expression.
• This just in: Android users are playas. Giggity.
• And BB users? Well…
• Slow news day at NY Times: The rise of the toilet texter.
• Breading cats, you say?

Shout-outs

• All hail @victriviaqueen!
• Thanks to our retweeters, too.

Music

• Here’s something new, from radio reddit it’s Built By Snow with their track, All the Weird Kids Know.

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AppleAppleApple

• iBooks 2, not cool.
• Can Apple even be stopped at this point?

Copyfight

• Hollywood bites back; MegaUpload shut down., with predictable results.
• Lobbyists gone wild.
• Great, there’s a RE-copyright now…

Canada-duh

• Fincky-dink is gone; where the fuck did they get this guy?
• A SOPA to call our own.
• They always come in Cs…
• A whistleblower’s open letter to Canada.
• Canadian resident sentenced to death for writing a computer program.

Priva-see

• Can’t opt out of that, no can do.

Goin’ Mobile

• RIM’s co-CEOs resign, with predictable results.

Pew-Pew!

• Hashtags gone wild.
• Windows Phone tops in 2015, says Microsoft-commissioned study.
• Rogers’ new cancellation policy in da house!
• CRTC has strong words for Rogers (and not much else).
• So that’s why Apple Stores are so popular…

Shout-outs

• Currie needs more direction on this tweet from SimonLR.
• Thanks to our retweeters, too.

Music

• This week we’ve got Lee Reed with a track from his Emergency Broadcast album, Same Old Same.

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Copyfight

• And… blackout!
• SOPA/PIPA sponsors drop like flies.
• Yet it’s business as usual at Facebook, Google (Canada), HuffPo, Twitter…

Canada-duh

• Election laws they are a-changin‘…
• Identi.ca’s Evan Prodromou offers a hand to Google.
• iWeb begets Funio. Funny story about that…

Goin’ Mobile

• Samsung not a suitor for beleaguered RIM.

AppleAppleApple

• Cupertino responds to This American Life.
• “I visited the Apple campus but that’s all I’m allowed to say.“
• “Wow, this iPad 2 sure is heavy…”
• But this has to be TEH BEST APP EVAR!!1!

Pew-Pew!

• The continuing pornification of tech.
• Early candidate for understatement of the year: Rogers price hike not well received by users.
• Meanwhile, Shaw fucks over Mountain Cable refugees (like Anth).
• Bell Media the king of streaming video in Cana-duh.
• For those who know better, The Pirate Bay has good news. More on magnet links here.
• Here comes the Symantec source code. Does anyone care?
• You probably shouldn’t be using McAfee products, either.
• Jerry Yang retires from Yahoo. What does it mean? Duhr…

Shout-outs

• Doug Slater sent us some more Rogers fail.
• Thanks to our retweeters, too.

Music

• From blogTO’s Weekend Mixtape here’s The Elwins with their track, Stuck in the Middle.

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Canada-duh

• OpenMedia to bring spectrum auction issues to a wider audience.
• A dystopian future for Canada’s Internet.
• TPP — another acronym to be afraid of.
• “Storied” Canadian Indie publisher gobbled up by Bertelsmann AG.

Copyfight

• Some of the stuff that should have entered the public domain on January 1st but didn’t.
• From the obvious department: “Hollywood must build a better BitTorrent.”
• Another petition to stop SOPA. From Hollywood Unions.

Goin’ Mobile

• Activism comes to Android with Boycott SOPA app.
• Upstart Canadian carrier Mobilicity is becoming a train wreck. Social data too? Jesus…
• Barnes & Noble an unlikely hero in pushback to Microsoft protection racket — some background and the latest developments.

AppleAppleApple

• Siri to dominate CES? Mmkay…
• Why Canada should care about iPhone for T-Mobile USA.
• Anybody catch This American Life recently?

Pew-Pew!

• Bell assigns escort service number to 11 year-old girl.
• The consequences of nanny-ware.
• That’s so ghetto!
• Thumbs up to Virgin Mobile.
• Bring on the thumbrive media players.
• No bananas for your Apples.
• Your Jo Blo link of the week.

Shout-outs

• Get it right: YAY-zhay YAR-masch.
• Thanks to our retweeters, too.

Music

• A classic from Jamendo this week, Leslie Hunt with her track American Dream Man.

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Andrew isn’t here, Anth is here but in Vegas and all things considered it’s amazing we connected this week at all. But we did, and we talked about Canada, mobile and more movies and TV stuff than usual. Not to mention bringing back a really old segment.

We’ll be here with another with a live episode next Wednesday, so join us for Episode 168.

Off the Top

• We’ve told you had bad Rogers is…now let Floyd

Canada-Duh

• Eight and a Half’s latest release is out, and we play with Scissors (courtesy of Arts and Crafts)

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The Annual Stocking Stuffer Episode

In the tradition of Stocking Stuffer episodes past, the boys all pitch in for a holiday-themed Drop-Boxing Day episode. It’s a shorter episode than most, so grab a cup of holiday cheer and enjoy!

We’ll be back with a live episode next Wednesday, so join us as we ring in 2012 with Episode 167.

(Incidentally, Mike does not do what Anth asked. Not in the least.)

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Oh Cana-duh

• Bell to stop Internet Throttling. Related: Dyscultured to stop linking to HuffPo…
• Canadian parents, you so crazy.

Copyfight

• Homeland security and (wait for it) the RIAA caught downloading torrents.
• And in case you were wondering, nothing for CRIA.ca … yet.
• SOPA says follow the money. That money comes from us, you know.

Navel-Gazing 2011

• The parable of RIM.
• The Canadian who wrecked Nokia.
• My kind of holiday wish list.

Goin’ Mobile

• Great news: The other guy blinked.
• Potentially not so great news (could be, though).
• Mobile “phone” is now a misnomer.

AppleAppleApple

• Alarmist headline of the week: If Apple wins, we all lose.
• Not content to sue device makers, Apple goes after the W3C.
• But I’m totally getting that graphic novel when it comes out…

Pew Pew

• Who will save us from the app-ocalypse?
• Like we didn’t see this coming…
• SRSLY, @ $500 UR CUTOFF.
• How is this even a story?
• Don’t call it a comeback. Seriously, don’t.
• Channeling FARK: Tomorrow’s SOPA hearing has been cancelled!

Music

• Straight from the pages of TorrentFreak we bring you Dan Bull and his new track SOPA Cabana.

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