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Sin City is a colossal achievement in cinema. It’s the perfect adaptation of comic to movie. No, scratch that. It’s not an adaptation at all. The movie is the comic. Each frame of the comic is faithfully recreated. The cast was fantastic – great perfomances all (okay, Michael Madsen might as well have been a wooden plank with a pair of horn rims on, but he had all of 5 minutes total screen time), a great look, and all the wonderful cheesy over-the-top noir dialogue of the comic. Go see this movie. And then go again.

Like the RIAA, the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) has been campaigning for copyright reform claiming that peer-to-peer file-sharinghas led to billions of dollars of lost sales in Canada. Piercing the peer-to-peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience is an excellent article by Michael Geist (who is both a lawyer and Ottawa University’s Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-Commerce Law) that dissects these claims.