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Letters to the Editor

By Michael Geist

Several noteworthy letters to the editor on Saturday - a terrific one from Steven Comeau, the President of Collideascope Digital and a Gemeni Award-winning producer in the Vancouver Sun, as well as a rebuttal to Corcoran's National Post piece by David Skoll, the President of Roaring Penguin Software in Ottawa.  Meanwhile, Industry Minister Jim Prentice again defends his bill, this time in the Kingston Whig-Standard, where he notes that consumers will only be liable for $500 in damages for downloading five "non-lock-protected movies without authorization," yet neglects to acknowledge that the consumer faces $100,000 in statutory damages for transferring five DVDs that they have purchased to their video iPod.

Full post as published by Michael Geist on June 21, 2008 (boomark / email).