Ressy’s Comments

• Jan 24th, 2014 @ 6:40am

  Correction (as Teresa)

  on Canadian ISPs Pretend To Care About Data-Capped Customers, Plan To Offer Net Neutrality-Skirting 'Two-Tier' Data Plans
  What you didn't post, was that that offer from Bell for mobile TV for $5/month is against our ITMP rules the CRTC put in place in 2009.
  
  PLUS there's currently a complaint against Bell lodged with the CRTC about this package, which is ongoing.
  
  Large ISPs in Canada don't care about/follow the rules the CRTC has in place because a lot of the time it'll make them more money, and they hope they can get away with it. The public however can make a complaint, and the CRTC can smack them for not following rules. Which is what's happening now with the complaint.
• Oct 18th, 2013 @ 7:03am

  Re: (as RessyM)

  on Oops: Brett Gibbs Releases Spreadsheet Showing 70% Of Prenda Proceeds Went To Steele & Hansmeier
  Fairly certain that Lutz is the pawn here.. Especially as he was on Prenda's monthly payroll until at least February 2012, when they went to ADP (company that does payroll for you), so you can't see the payroll breakdown after that.
• Jan 16th, 2013 @ 9:22am

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  on Court Gives Canadians More Time To Fight Copyright Troll Voltage
  I think that's where one of the IPs resolved to, yes.
  There was a big post about it on DSLReports.com (Canadian Broadband) back then where people were checking where the 50 IPs resolved to - whether commercial, or private.
• Jan 15th, 2013 @ 1:07pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  on Court Gives Canadians More Time To Fight Copyright Troll Voltage
  In 2011, Voltage asked for IP information from Bell, Cogeco & Videotron, and all 3 ISPs wrote a letter to the court together stating they wouldn't fight it, or even show up to the hearing.
  http://dwmw.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/voltages-teksavvy-subscriber-shakedown-whats-an-isp-t o-do/#comment-2530
  Jean-Francois Mezei (also known as 'JF') is well-known in the Canadian Tech Policy circles, and I can confirm that posting is from him due to a conversation I had with him Sunday night.
  
  In 2012, NGN asked for & got IP information from 4 ISPs; Access, Distributel, 3web & ACN Inc.
  http://copyrightenforcement.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/NGN-Order-Montreal.pdf
• Jan 15th, 2013 @ 9:16am

  Re: Re:

  on Court Gives Canadians More Time To Fight Copyright Troll Voltage
  They may have fought it in 2004, but they didn't fight the copytroll attempt from Voltage in 2011.
  
  In fact, Bell along with the other ISPs wrote to the Judge specifically stating that they wouldn't be fighting the court order, or even appearing for any court hearings.
  
  The letter was mistakenly in the public file when someone viewed the file in the Montreal courts. When the person who saw it and requested a photocopy of the page, staff realized their error, and removed it from the file, refusing to allow it to be copied.
• Dec 20th, 2012 @ 10:59am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Why is it up to teksavvy to protect us?

  on If TekSavvy Won't Oppose Copyright Trolls Who Want Customer Info, Who Will?
  Some US judges have ordered that, due to the company suing being a foreign company...
• Dec 20th, 2012 @ 9:25am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Why is it up to teksavvy to protect us?

  on If TekSavvy Won't Oppose Copyright Trolls Who Want Customer Info, Who Will?
  Marc's been responding this morning regarding reasoning.
  
  http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r27824891-Why-we-are-not-opposing-motion-on-Monday.~st art=440
• Dec 20th, 2012 @ 9:05am

  Re: Re: Why is it up to teksavvy to protect us? (as Teresa)

  on If TekSavvy Won't Oppose Copyright Trolls Who Want Customer Info, Who Will?
  Nowhere in the privacy policy does it say they have to fight a potential court order on behalf of their customers. Privacy policy does essentially say that if there is a court order, they have to follow it.
  
  I don't get why people seem to think Teksavvy should they pick up the bill to defend their customers from the suit?
• Dec 20th, 2012 @ 7:58am

  (untitled comment) (as Teresa)

  on If TekSavvy Won't Oppose Copyright Trolls Who Want Customer Info, Who Will?
  Meanwhile, just last month Distributel & 3web (2 other major indie ISPs here in Canada) didn't do what Teksavvy has done (ie fought to push back the order so that they could inform affected customers, and advise them to get legal counsel), and just rolled over and handed over the subscriber info.
  
  They did NOT fight the order in any manner whatsoever, and will now be seeing settlement letters in their near future.
  
  http://copyrightenforcement.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/NGN-Order-Montreal.pdf
  
  I think its good on Teksavvy that they gave customers time to get their own lawyers anonymously so as to dispute being named in one of these suits.
• Jul 5th, 2012 @ 4:56pm

  Re: Re: (as Teresa)

  on OxyContin Being Tested On Kids... So Drugmaker Can Get 6 More Months Of Patent Protection
  What neither of these 2 stories said, was that its a small test of 157 children in the US, ages 6-17, who are already opioid-tolerant, and are experiencing extreme pain from cancer, post-operative pain, and severe burns.
  
  http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/03/pharma-company-studying-oxycontins-effect-in-chil dren/
  
  If your child had severe burns, and you had the choice of giving them Oxycontin to remove the pain entirely, or giving them lesser pain meds and them still being in pain, what would you choose?
  
  Now, I'm not saying Purdue is doing this out of the goodness of their hearts (more like to increase their wallets), but its not a bad thing that they're doing this testing.