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Desperate for a Partnership?
July 22, 2012 by Byron Tse (IPilogue Editor) Canada has been lobbying to enter the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and its efforts have seemingly paid off with an exclusive invite to the secretive nine-member club on June 19, 2012. With Ottawa championing its economic benefits and potential, there are many asking a simple question – what have we given up?
UK’s (Losing) Battle with Pirates
July 5, 2012 by Byron Tse (IPilogue Editor) In what seems to be a never-ending war on piracy, the Royal Navy has been seemingly substituted for an army of lawyers, and skirmishes on the seas traded for exchanges in a courtroom. In a decision that mirrors an international effort to limit access to the peer-to-peer file sharing website known as “The Pirate Bay” (TPB), the High Court of Justice in the United Kingdom ruled on May 2, 2012 that six of the UK’s largest internet service providers (ISPs) would block TPB’s IP address from its customers in an attempt to prevent access to files that have infringed numerous copyrights.
Protection From Harm?
June 6, 2012 by Byron Tse (IPilogue Editor) There is little doubt that the protection of the patent system has been instrumental in the continued innovation in science and technology by allowing the inventor (or filer of the patent) to reap the benefits of their effort and creativity. The realm of public health is no stranger to these benefits, with such innovation having furthered the frontier of medical treatments and pharmaceuticals. However, stringent patent protection has come at a cost to public health, a cost potentially greater than the benefits it confers. Read the rest of this entry »
Who Coined It First? The Advent of Digital Currency
May 20, 2012 by Byron Tse (IPilogue Editor) When the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) announced that it would be creating a digital representation of the Canadian Dollar in the form of MintChip, the digital currency sphere lit up with comparisons to numerous previous attempted forms of digital currencies – most notably Bitcoin, a decentralized electronic cash system developed by Satoshi Nakamoto. Read the rest of this entry » |
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