Christopher Leger

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International trade agreements rarely make front page news, and even then only when the agreements are signed, binding the signatory countries to them. Because of this, the standard practice for negotiating these trade agreements is extraordinarily opaque due to press disinterest and the lack of the same open-government laws that many nations have regulating how [...]

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Canadian copyright lobbyists seem to misunderstand the idea of intellectual integrity. They have done what countless lobbyists do – namely, hire an independent academic and expect that the expert will validate their argument. However, in this case, the expert did not report what the lobbyists wanted to hear, and they summarily replaced his report with [...]

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Time Warner Cable, the geniuses who can’t help but rip off their customers, is at it again. Several small towns across the country are taking matters into their own hands and creating a utility broadband system for their residents. This, being a community-owned utility, offers high capacity for low price – who could have a [...]

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The fight for a voice at the table by anyone not already an IP rights-holder is heating up. Already, the Obama administration is filled with RIAA and BSA industry oriented officials, and few if any from consumer, education, or hardware oriented backgrounds. An April 2nd letter sent to the President requests a more diverse group [...]

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Time Warner recently announced expanding their ridiculously low bandwidth caps to additional markets. Let me be clear, this has nothing to do with infrastructure costs, quality of service, or even additional revenue generation. It is solely about drawing a lime in the sand over what (HD video?) they do not want customers to view, because [...]

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Wikileaks represents the complete freedom of information. Many governments around the world are actively censoring Wikileaks, including more and more “free” and “democratic” governments. This censorship must not be allowed to become the norm and create a real 1984 Big Brother society online. This is possibly the most inportant fight for intellectual freedom ever, and [...]

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Copyright has absolutely nothing to do with any national security threats, and to suggest that it does undermines real national security issues as well as any faith in fair and open government. The Obama administration has continued the Bush administration policy of holding information regarding ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a trade treaty, outside of [...]

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A New York Times article by Kevin O’brien manages to contain zero useful and relevant information regarding the brewing net neutrality fight in Europe. The article dismissively pits “basic traffic management” against “illegal downloading.” This binary, useless characterization, as well as the “outcome of the debate” are so intellectually flawed that it makes the reader [...]

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This Week in Tech episode 183 is officially the best TWiT ever. The panel has a very rational and intellectually honest discussion on a wide range of intellectual property issues, and doesn’t contain any of the business-side, inside baseball, filler that Dvorak or Calicanis bring up. Honestly, it is the best hour and a half [...]

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