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Last week, Cam Barrett

August 2, 2000 by Michael Boyle

of CamWorld pointed to a transcript of the deCSS trial from July 25, 2000. I read it that day while I ate lunch at my desk. In the transcript, there’s a lot of stuff that seems to miss the point, or make a point so tangentially that I wonder if the judge et al. will really get it. But not everything was so oblique – one witness explained, clearly, how code could be construed as speech, and therefore protected in the US by the First Amendment – finally!

I say finally because this has been an issue ever since I first jumped online in 1993, when I got hooked on the whole crypto/PGP thing. Code = speech has a long history, and it might finally be getting its due. I’m not 100% sure how far down that road I go, mind, but I think it’s a compelling argument and definitely the case to some extent.

Tags: CSS, History

I stayed offline

August 1, 2000 by Michael Boyle

over the weekend, pretty much, and forgot to note that there was a fantastic article about the future of Mount Royal in the Gazette last Sunday. The article’s by Linda Gyulai, who’s a terrific civic affairs reporter. Linda used to write for the Mirror and later Hour Magazine, and when she did, both weeklies broke more city political stories than the English daily, for whom she now works.

Tags: Hour

Canadian media just

August 1, 2000 by Michael Boyle

changed quite a bit: CanWest Global has bought Hollinger. It’s a $3.5b deal and comprises newspapers, internet properties, etc. It’s not clear what role Conrad Black will continue to have in the new configuration.

Tags: Internet, Media, Newspapers

I’m going to

August 1, 2000 by Michael Boyle

be a little self-indulgent and mention that tomorrow’s my birthday. It’s odd, cause when I was young at home in bed trying to get to sleep I didn’t count sheep, I calculated how old I would be in the year 2000 (as we used to say), both in January and after my birthday. Well, here I am – I’m turning 33.

Rabbit Rabbit

August 1, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Rabbit Rabbit

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