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Pirate Party champions Internet issues
The Pirate Party of Canada, registered as a political party in 2010, champions issues attractive to young voters — traditionally seen as slackers unwilling to become overtly active politically. Drawing its name not from seafaring swashbucklers but from a drive to reform information, copyright and privacy laws and promote digital access, the party’s issues are not as insignificant as its name suggests.
Debates over file sharing, usage-based billing (Internet service providers ending unlimited online access) and net neutrality (preventing providers from restricting Internet content or usage) were mainstream news last year.
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Canadians are broadband gobblers, and we’re paying for it
Seeing red over metered Internet
“There are two truths we know. Consumers prefer all-you-can-eat plans, and the exponential explosion of content is crashing into the finite bandwidth of networks,”
How much does bandwidth actually cost?
Does a gigabyte cost a penny, a dime or $2? Depends who you ask.
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