[Announce] Recent activity on the Petition to protect Information Technology property rights

[Russell McOrmond]

(Please circulate)

   Please read http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ict/blog for 
updates.  We recently received a copy of a government "response" to our 
petition signatures, and I was then interviewed for an article in IT 
World Canada as a follow-up to the article written for sister 
publication ITBusiness.ca about a year ago.


   If this issue concerns you, please write to your member of 
parliament, write letters to the editor, and talk to your 
friends/family.   We are still wanting to table more signatures to the 
petition so please continue to send signatures to us.  We are being told 
that with the new Ministers of Heritage and Industry that new Copyright 
legislation should be expected sooner rather than later.

Thank you.

-- 
  Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
  I will be voting for MMP in Ontario  http://www.voteformmp.ca/

  Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property
  rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition!
  http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ict/

  "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware
   manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or
   portable media player from my cold dead hands!"