Here are some excellent articles and essays that put the spectrum of issues around Canadian copyright law & its reform in great perspective.

Click here to read them.

And now, the copyright soapbox.

For those of us interested in doing our own thing online without needing to ask permission from some company and only in paying for the bandwidth we use and the electrons we suck out of the wall copyright is truly a fundamental concern.

There are some folks (let's call them "interests") who would have you believe that if the ability to make a mixed cd/whatever and [GASP] play it on whatever you want is allowed to continue, the entire worldwide artistic endeavor of humankind will collapse overnight. Ha!

You can now syndicate any page of our site to your own RSS enabled site/blog/whatnot or with any RSS Feed Reader. Follow RFP news, your favourite blogs - or see what's going on with the Calendar automagically.

Just right-click the little orange button with "XML" on it at the bottom left of the page and copy 'n paste the link into your RSS reader. Done, and done. Enjoy.

Hi everyone...on Saturday October first, come down to the Spill coffee bar at 8 pm and see my new rock band The Fontanels...we play loud three chord rock and roll and sound somewhere in between AC/DC and Social Distortion. Our supporting acts will be the outlaw country stylings of Josh McCallen (of the Otonabee River Boys) and one man metal/hardcore band Big Pussy...the show starts at 8pm sharp and is all ages...pay what you can...ok well see you at the show!

Just out of curiosity, I thought I'd whip up a little piece of software to figure out where our D.I.Y. Internet Radio document has made it to. I was very pleased to discover that our contribution to the Online Radio Revolution has been downloaded by visitors from 57 different countries!!

We love getting email from you about your Internet radio projects, so keep 'em coming folks. Here's a list of the countries which have downloaded our D.I.Y. Internet Radio document so far: (click "Read More" for the full list)

We are pleased to announce that the new streaming server is now fully operational. Thanks to the kind folks at the Radio Tarahumara project for donating the server.

tuesday tuesday tuesday, yes every tuesday from 10pm - 1am, it's open mic at the piggy...come on out and do it in the ear (i know you'll like it)

The new streaming server has arrived. After some initial futzing with Linux kernel configuration, I've got a working Debian install on the new box. The SATA drivers for the 2.6.x series kernel were a bit of a gorefest, but it's all working now, and we are pleased to annouce we now have 250Gb of storage online instead of the measly 30Gb available on the old box.

This should allow us to grow in leaps and bounds. The server was graciously provided by the generous patrons of the Radio Tarahumara project and will provide streaming services for both RFP and RTH.

Hi everyone...

Well I guess its time to bring you folks up to date on Radio Free Cornwall..Yes its online now...but no.... not on its own server just yet...

We're happy to announce that the old pIII 433MHz box that runs all of our streams is about to be retired from its job: streaming server and web duties. Web things have been moved to a proper hosting environment.

The old box will be reformatted and have a new life as a development staging machine.

I spent ages in a crowded College St. computer store, but got a good deal on a solid P4 2.66 GHz silent server box with 1Gb of ram, a 250 Gb drive and a keyboard.

We're very grateful for all the support that has helped the Radio Tarahumara project and RFP grow and serve our collective communities even more effectively.

RFP would like to salute Phil Kummel for putting his postage where his mouth is and mailing in a big fat package containing nine - count 'em nine recordings for the catalogue. They're in the "to digitize" pile now.

Two are on tape, so they'll go to wakefield with me week after next to be handed off to Brian for digital dump and a little noise reduction geekery.

That's how it's done folks. Send us stuff, we digitize it, and play it for the world here and through Trent Radio 92.7 FM in Peterborough.