Good stuff from Google and their employees today…
The Canadians Again Show us how to do things
William Patry offers a great summary of the sentiment of the Canadian public in the outcry over their version of the DMCA. While I had heard that Michael Geist had been speaking out to a great degree against it, I did not realize how much public support he generated.
That the public would become so involved in the issue, especially under the direction [too strong of a word, I know] of a public intellectual like Geist, really has me thinking. I wonder things like: what was more influential in forming these opinions against the new law, what the law actually said or what Geist said the impact might be? Would there have been such an outcry without some specific person leading the cause?
Today: TV static. Tomorrow: broadband.
The Google policy blog also announced their membership in the “Wireless Innovation Alliance,” which is made up of a variety of familiar names. I had not yet heard about this group, but it’s nice to see that they are basing their arguments, at least in part, off of research into what the technology might be capable of.