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FairPlay: What’s the cost? What’s the tech? And, does the CRTC have the authority?


Nearly 10,000 submissions, most by people who didn’t read the proposalGATINEAU – The FairPlay Coalition has a fight on its hands.Last week saw the passing of the deadline to respond to the CRTC’s call for comments on the public proceeding opened to consider the FairPlay Coalition’s call for a new agency to help fight online piracy of content.In January, the coalition of Canadian artists, content creators, unions, guilds, producers, performers, broadcasters, distributors, and exhibitors proposed the CRTC establish something called the Independent Piracy Review Agency (IPRA), which would assist it in identifying websites blatantly engaged in content theft – and...