Episode 237 - Are You There God? It's Me, Robbie!

(MP3 here / Google+ Hangout here)

Preamble

• Wolf Blitzer gets an unexpected answer from Oklahoma tornado survivor.

CanaDUH

• Downloading torrents. Everybody’s doing it.

Copyfight

• Teacher uploads book for students, with predictable results.

Going Mobile

• How Ottawa failed to break the big three’s wireless stranglehold.

Khaki Pants

• Competition Bureau to investigate Google Canada, and why it probably won’t matter.

Pew-Pew

• Bell liable for 911 charges to customers who didn’t receive service, plans appeal.
• Cellular contracts are so fucked up here that there are professional contract negotiators now.
• Finally, some good news: How’d you like to charge your phone in twenty seconds?
• And this, ladies and gentlemen, is crowdfunding at its very best.

Shout-outs

• Props to fellow Drupal user and listener Mike Gifford.

Music

• Swan Song for Mobilicity? Here’s Doin’ It Unlimited, one of the many guerilla videos on their YouTube channel.

Dyscuss

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