Articles by Shane Sinnott

Yahoo Falls to #2 in Music Streaming
PUBLISHED May 21, 2008
Yahoo.com, the longtime leader in online music streaming, has recently lost out to upstart Imeem.com as the number one music streaming site...
New Canadian Copyright Law Expected Any Day Now
PUBLISHED May 21, 2008
Rumours are flying around the internet that the long awaited USA-style copyright laws for Canada are imminent. A cynic might even say that...
Napster Offers DRM-Free Downloads
PUBLISHED May 21, 2008
As of yesterday (May 20), Napster has begun to offer their entire catalogue for purchase without Digital Rights Management. For 99 cents yo...
CRTC Rules In Favour of Bell's "Bittorent and File-Sharing Throttling"
PUBLISHED May 14, 2008
The CRTC has ruled against a complaint brought forth by the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP), allowing Bell to continue it...
DRM Is Here To Stay
PUBLISHED May 13, 2008
While most measures of the way the wind is blowing these days point to the end of DRM (Digital Rights Management), which are restrictions b...
Rolling Stones Catalogue Pulled From eMusic
PUBLISHED May 13, 2008
For about two weeks, users of the popular subscription music service eMusic.com had access to the Rolling Stones complete catalogue from 1...
Swedish Man Convicted For File-Sharing
PUBLISHED May 6, 2008
On May 4, a 31-year-old man from Linköping, Sweden was convicted in the countrys biggest file-sharing case so far. The defendant was found...
EFF Takes Microsoft To Task for MSN Store DRM Mess
PUBLISHED May 2, 2008
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a longstanding and respected civil liberties group dedicated to protecting citizens online rights, has...