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VPN Restrictions Are Problematic, App Association Tells U.S. Government

TorrentFreak

These services are vital for whistleblowers, activists, and citizens rebelling against Government oppression. Government completes an annual review of various trade barriers around the globe and ACT believes that overly restrictive policies deserve to be called out. Government previously called out China’s restrictive policies.

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Competition in Canada Takes Another Hit: Government Gives Go Ahead for Rogers – Shaw Merger

Michael Geist

His privacy legislation has languished for months and he has been entirely missing on digital policy, where fishing expeditions such as the one involving Bill C-18 are likely to make companies reticent about entering the Canadian market. If the government was serious about competition and consumer pricing, this should have been an easy call.

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Neutral Intermediaries are Not Notorious Piracy Markets, Coalition Warns

TorrentFreak

Earlier this month, several prominent copyright holder groups sent their annual “notorious markets” recommendations to the U.S. Government uses these documents as input for its yearly review of notorious piracy markets, which aims to provide an overview of threats to various copyright industries. Trade Representative (USTR).

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Corporate Governance: An Ancient Scripture Of Modern Governance

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Corporate governance is a term which is used in very broader sense when it came to company or corporate law. Whereas the term ‘governance’ means how to govern a particular thing. In addition to both these terms, Corporate Governance basically deals with how to regulate or govern the company.

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Can Government Agencies Ban Scraping?–NAACP v. Kohn (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

But since most scraping cases involve two private litigants, and no direct government actor, those seeking to invoke those First Amendment rights were left with weak Pruneyard -type arguments trying to compare the internet with a public square. But what happens when the government is the party seeking to ban access to scrapers?

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Why the Government is Quietly Undermining Competition Bureau Independence in Bill C-56

Michael Geist

The government unveiled Bill C-56 yesterday, legislation it touts as supporting the building of more rental homes (through tax measures) and stabilizing grocery prices (through Competition Act reforms). Those reforms are not subject to any significant limitations and are open to potential abuse.

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MPA Reports ‘Notorious’ Piracy Threats to U.S. Government

TorrentFreak

Trade Representative ( USTR ) in response to the annual inquiry on notorious piracy markets. ” From MPA’s submission The notorious markets list is limited to non-U.S. The Notorious Piracy Markets MPA’s submission continues with a detailed overview of notorious pirate sites and services. im, cuevana[.]biz,

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