Over two years ago, Simon Chester noted, 75 percent of all traffic on the Internet is due to file sharing, with 59 percent of that file sharing attributed to people swapping video files. Music tracks account for 33 percent of the file-sharing traffic. E-mail, it turns out, accounts for just 9 percen...

If you were an early bird like me and on your computer circa 5:30-5:45 a.m. EST this morning, or on the other side of the world when this would be a reasonable time of the day, you too may have participated in the “Great Gmail outage of February 2009.” Yes, Gmail was down, and mass panic...

Last week I met with Mitch Kowalski of the Legal Post.  He mentioned our conversation earlier today on the site, which is the kick in the butt I needed to do my own write-up on it during our break from school. Mitch is an alumn from my school, Western Law, but has chosen a career path unique from m...

The concept of solicitor-client privilege goes back at least 400 years in the common law, and is one of the most well established concepts of privilege in our legal system. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was recently caught listening and recording conversations with Mohamed Zeki M...

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. - Master Yoda, P.C., C.J.C. In this award-winning 2006 film produced in cooperation with the CBC, Steel Toes tells the story of a neo-Nazi living in Montreal.  He viciously attacks an Indian immigr...

It’s not the first time a city or location is suing for intellectual property in its name.  But it’s probably the first time a major blockbuster has been the target of the lawsuit. The city of Batman, located in eastern Turkey, is named after the river by the same name that flows into t...