Canadian court deciding if ISPs are content providers
Canada requires the television and radio industries to adhere to Canada's Broadcasting Act, which is governed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Currently, ISPs are not considered broadcasters, and it's pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain that they should not be.
However, the CRTC has escalated this issue to the Federal Court of Appeal in order to ...
If you've ever considered buying a Roku, the set-top streaming video box for your TV, you've got at least 10 new reasons today. Roku just launched its Channel Store, featuring 10 free content sources. You may have heard of some of them before: Flickr and Facebook Photos are available, as well as music from Pandora, and web shows from heavy hitters like Revision3 and Leo Laporte's TWiT.TV. On the ...
DDoS attacks are hardly unusual. A site says something controversial that gets under the wrong person's skin, and it's not long before they get flooded with enough requests to knock out their servers temporarily. When an attack happened over the weekend at the popular webshow site Revision3 , they started to wonder what they had to done provoke it. Now Rev3 has found the source of the attack, and ...
A forum member named Lorfoul over at the Revision3 forums posted a list of his preferred free Windows downloads that are less than 2MB in size. Many of them have been covered here before at Download Squad, and we've definitely covered longer lists. I like this one in particular though, specifically for its brevity. It's a nice short list of useful Windows programs all in one place. It won't take ...





