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Filipino company asks for set-top box sale shutdown in Ontario
| 05/14/2018 4:49 pm EDT
A media company from the Philippines is asking a Canadian court to put an end to sales of pre-loaded set-top boxes in Brampton, Ont. that it alleges are infringing its copyright.
ABS-CBN Corp. filed a statement of claim in Federal Court earlier this month, against a...
Gov’t shouldn’t allow FairPlay regime: House committee
telecom | 05/09/2018 6:12 pm EDT
The House ethics committee said that if the CRTC rules in favour of a proposal to implement a website-blocking system to fight piracy, the federal government should consider overturning it.
The committee made the recommendation in a new report, released Wednesday, that...
U.S. trade report blasts Canada on IP, copyright
telecom | 05/02/2018 3:16 pm EDT
An annual report evaluating whether trade partners are implementing favourable policies to the United States — traditionally dismissed by the Canadian government — has sunk Canada’s record on piracy this year because of what...
Voltage asks SCC for ‘teeth’ in notice-and-notice
Media | 04/26/2018 5:23 pm EDT
Voltage Pictures LLC’s lawyer told the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) Thursday that while the “sky...
No more settlement demands in notice-and-notice letters: gov’t
Media | 04/26/2018 4:56 pm EDT
Innovation Canada is pledging to regulate what makes up and goes into notice letters, it said as it announced its new intellectual property strategy Thursday. The government is looking to ban...
It’s not ‘notice-and-Norwich,’ SCC to hear in disclosure costs case
Media | 04/20/2018 11:33 am EDT
The notice-and-notice regime requires internet service providers (ISPs) to...
B.C. court dismisses Google case in Equustek
Media | 04/18/2018 12:33 pm EDT
A British Columbia court said it will not set aside or change a provincial court decision to force Alphabet Inc. to remove an alleged bad actor from its search results, pointing to weak new evidence brought by Google that experts say made for an unsurprising decision....
House heritage committee to study creative industry ‘remuneration models’
Media | 04/10/2018 5:22 pm EDT
The House Heritage committee will launch a study on “remuneration models for artists and creative industries in the context of copyright” as part of the government’s Copyright Act review,...
71% of households with Kodi can access unlicensed content: Sandvine
Media | 04/06/2018 2:50 pm EDT
The vast majority of households with Kodi in Canada have the software...
FairPlay regime ineffective, counter to Telecom Act: opponents
Media | 04/05/2018 4:39 pm EDT
A proposal to implement a website-blocking system to fight piracy has drawn...
Internet Society establishes lobby footing in Canada
Media | 03/27/2018 6:32 pm EDT
A decades-old organization that is pushing for a multilateral approach to decision-making on the future...
Equustek case back in B.C. court over internet jurisdiction
Media | 03/12/2018 4:35 pm EDT
A British Columbia court will not delay hearing a challenge brought by...
Cybersecurity, LEO satellites, data on OTT services in federal budget
Media | 02/27/2018 4:21 pm EST
OTTAWA — The 2018 federal budget, released Tuesday afternoon, includes...
Judge upholds injunction against Kodi add-on host
Media | 02/21/2018 5:22 pm EST
The Federal Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a number of telecoms in their case against the man behind TV AddOns. Last June, a civil search warrant was carried out at a property connected to Adam Lackman following a June...
Bell asking employees to support FairPlay at CRTC: report
Media | 02/21/2018 12:53 pm EST
BCE Inc. is allegedly encouraging its employees to submit comments to the...
Telecoms defend FairPlay to MPs, call for 5G net neutrality flexibility
Media | 02/13/2018 2:01 pm EST
OTTAWA — Representatives from Canada’s biggest telecoms argued that flexibility in Canada’s net neutrality framework will be necessary with the advent of 5G, as they...
Liberals signal interest in enshrining net neutrality in law
Media | 02/06/2018 7:24 pm EST
OTTAWA — The idea of of explicitly making net neutrality part of...
As TiVo targets Telus, three telecoms now all fighting TV patent claims
telecom | 02/05/2018 5:37 pm EST
Telus Corp. is now the third Canadian telecom to be sued by TiVo Corp. over...
TFO looking for participants for March blockchain test
telecom | 02/01/2018 2:45 pm EST
OTTAWA — A Canada Media Fund-backed initiative to implement blockchain...
TiVo expands patent suit to include Bell
telecom | 01/31/2018 5:49 pm EST
TiVo Corp. is going after a second Canadian telecom for patent infringement, claiming in a lawsuit filed...
SOCAN expects higher annual revenues for 2017
Media | 01/31/2018 5:44 pm EST
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is estimating that it has broken its performing rights revenue record, according to its preliminary financial results for 2017 released on Wednesday.
It said the total performing rights revenue...
Interventions due March 1 in website-blocking proceeding
Media | 01/31/2018 5:16 pm EST
The CRTC has officially launched the Part 1 process for an application asking the regulator to set up an anti-piracy website-blocking system. The Part 1 was posted on the CRTC's website Tuesday...
Gov’t points to open internet for ‘legal content’ in FairPlay response
Media | 01/30/2018 4:25 pm EST
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has released a statement on a call by a coalition of broadcasters, telecoms and creative groups to begin blocking websites hosting pirated content, in which he...
Cross-industry coalition calls for website-blocking
Media | 01/29/2018 6:21 pm EST
A broad coalition made up of Canada’s largest telecoms and broadcasters, as well as groups representing...
Canada touts wins on copyright, culture in TPP deal
Media | 01/24/2018 3:17 pm EST
The Canadian government announced Tuesday it has reached an agreement with 10 other countries taking part in the negotiations of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). It said it had...
Canadian IP, tech targets during gov’t travel: CSIS
telecom | 01/15/2018 1:48 pm EST
In an instructional guide released to government employees, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) recommended high levels of vigilance in protecting personal information during international travel. Originally...
Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobby
Media | 01/08/2018 4:14 pm EST
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...
Court denies Bell Super Bowl SimSub appeal
Media | 12/19/2017 7:01 pm EST
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed a case brought forward by BCE Inc. challenging the CRTC’s rule...
BPF registers to lobby amidst consumer group funding concerns
Media | 12/14/2017 2:25 pm EST
A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...
Amidst NAFTA IP negotiation, Copyright Act review kicks off
Media | 12/13/2017 6:13 pm EST
After a unanimous vote in the House of Commons, the federal government has triggered the long-awaited five-year review of the Copyright Modernization Act, though the timing might cause some challenges for the government, according to David Fewer, director at the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC). Initially expected to begin at the start of November, the late-December launch for the review means it will occur in a similar timeframe as the negotiations of international trade pacts like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the...
TekSavvy appealing disclosure order involving 13 ISPs
telecom | 11/23/2017 5:03 pm EST
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is appealing a Federal Court order to disclose the identities of some of its...
Supreme Court to hear Rogers disclosure costs appeal
telecom | 11/23/2017 12:52 pm EST
The Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday it will hear a case by Rogers Communications Inc. that seeks to...
Gov’t should do more to support technology transfer: report
Media | 11/23/2017 12:33 pm EST
The House of Commons standing committee on industry, science and technology has outlined a number of ways to improve technology transfer — the move of knowledge developed in academic settings to...
Media, telecom issues not controversial in NAFTA: experts
Media | 11/15/2017 4:53 pm EST
OTTAWA — Questions around telecom, intellectual property and media...
Website blocking has potential to combat piracy, conference hears
Media | 11/14/2017 7:19 pm EST
OTTAWA — If BCE Inc.’s suggestion in September that the federal government should consider blocking websites that host infringing material to fight content piracy was...
Government needs to move quicker, do more on telecom issues: panel
Media | 11/08/2017 6:13 pm EST
TORONTO — The federal government and the CRTC must pick up the pace and...
International market becoming key for music publishers: panel
Media | 11/07/2017 3:56 pm EST
OTTAWA — Markets outside of Canada are increasingly important for music...
Google doesn’t have to comply with SCC order: U.S. court
telecom | 11/03/2017 4:56 pm EDT
Alphabet Inc.’s Google does not have to comply with an order from...
Expand statutory damages to other collectives: copyright groups
Media | 11/01/2017 5:43 pm EDT
Just over a week before Parliament is set to embark on its five-year review...
Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada release
Media | 10/24/2017 6:20 pm EDT
Creative organizations stepped up and added to a surge in lobbying activity...
Music Choice patents under review in dispute with Stingray
Media | 10/24/2017 5:44 pm EDT
Stingray Digital Group Inc. is challenging the validity of patents held by...
Narrow the ‘value gap,’ Music Canada tells gov’t
Media | 10/18/2017 7:50 pm EDT
Music Canada is asking the government to address the disparity between the value of creative content and the revenues that are generated from it. “The Value Gap challenges the livelihood and...
Court issues no-cost orders for customer IDs of multiple ISPs
Media | 10/13/2017 4:47 pm EDT
The Federal Court has made its first major disclosure orders for subscriber...
SOCAN appeals decision in making-available-right case
Media | 10/03/2017 1:22 pm EDT
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has filed an appeal in Federal Court arguing that a Copyright Board decision that established the making available right under the Copyright Act applies to downloads erred in neglecting to apply rates on those royalties. In the appeal filed last week, the organization says the board made several errors in its August judgment, which determined that groups theoretically have the right to collect royalties on music that has been made available for download online. However, by declining to apply rates, the decision meant...
Bell copyright ask draws criticism, as others point to precedent
telecom | 09/26/2017 6:03 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has said it thinks Canada can tackle piracy by mandating that...
Telus leads in end-of-summer lobbying activity
Media | 09/25/2017 5:31 pm EDT
Telus Corp. was far and away the busiest industry stakeholder when it came to...
Regulatory rejigs, cultural changes in store as Parliament resumes
Media | 09/18/2017 1:56 pm EDT
Everything old is new again when it comes to telecom and media issues...
Re:Sound, SOCAN team up for music licensing portal
Media | 08/30/2017 11:38 am EDT
A new pilot project is aiming to streamline the licensing process for music rights holders.
Re:Sound...
Major boxing fight shows PPV target for piracy
Media | 08/28/2017 5:39 pm EDT
Nearly three million viewers around the world watched the much-anticipated boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor Saturday through 239 illegally redistributed streams, shows new data from digital platform security company Irdeto.
“Piracy is still a...
Changes ahead for ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ as terms of trade expires
Media | 08/25/2017 5:06 pm EDT
While online discussion forums are rife with debate — and more often, complaints — about why Canadians can’t access popular American television shows legally online, Canadian content producers...
‘No compromise’ on NAFTA cultural exemptions: ministers
Media | 08/23/2017 5:27 pm EDT
Canada’s heritage and culture ministers are of one mind when it comes to...
BlueSky patent infringement suit dropped
telecom | 08/21/2017 4:08 pm EDT
A Swiss corporation and its subsidiaries have dropped a patent infringement case against Shaw...
Copyright rules could hinder AI development: Geist
Media | 08/17/2017 3:13 pm EDT
Canada’s “restrictive” rules around copyright could make it more difficult for those working on artificial intelligence technologies to test and bring them to market, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist said in...
Cultural protection a NAFTA priority: Freeland
Media | 08/14/2017 5:00 pm EDT
Canada’s continued preservation of the provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)...
Rogers asks SCC to weigh in on notice-and-notice, disclosure costs
Media | 08/11/2017 3:20 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. is looking to the country’s highest court to sort out what exactly internet service providers (ISPs) are obligated to do under Canada’s notice-and-notice regime. In...
Government consulting on Copyright Board improvements
Media | 08/09/2017 3:42 pm EDT
The federal government is looking for feedback on proposals to help the Copyright Board pick up the pace, launching a consultation on proposals to, among other things, speed up the body’s tariff-setting process. “Getting...
Extend private copying levy: ACTRA
Media | 08/03/2017 4:24 pm EDT
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is asking the federal government to...
Kodi add-on host prepping for legal battle
Media | 08/02/2017 5:36 pm EDT
A Montreal man connected to a popular repository for Kodi add-ons, who was ordered by the Federal Court to submit to the search and seizure of his property following a claim by a group of telecoms, is fundraising to fight the lawsuit.
According to the court registry, a...
CMF funding blockchain-based system for rightsholders
Media | 08/02/2017 4:47 pm EDT
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) is backing an initiative by Ontario public broadcaster Groupe Média TFO to implement technology that would allow it to more efficiently credit content and pay rightsholders. The proposed system will...
Google turns to U.S. courts over Equustek decision
Media | 07/25/2017 12:58 pm EDT
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is challenging the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) to order...
TNW Wireless, iFramed sold to U.S. company
Media | 06/28/2017 5:05 pm EDT
Investel Capital Corp.’s TNW Wireless Inc. has been sold to an American holding and management company, United American Corp., the Florida-based company announced in a Wednesday press release. TNW Wireless, which serves...
Supreme Court’s Google search ban could have global implications
Media | 06/28/2017 10:07 am EDT
OTTAWA — In a landmark ruling, Canada’s top court dismissed an appeal...
U.S. NAFTA consult targets CanCon, copyright, data rules
Media | 06/27/2017 4:11 pm EDT
American companies and organizations took aim at Canadian cultural protections, the country’s copyright regime and expressed concern over any potential rules requiring domestic storage of data, when given the chance to provide feedback to their government on priorities to...
SCC sets Canadian jurisdiction in Facebook privacy case
Media | 06/23/2017 4:50 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that British Columbia has...
Act now on copyright infringement ‘shakedown’ letters: Masse
Media | 06/14/2017 5:07 pm EDT
The federal government shouldn’t stand idly by, awaiting the looming...
Rightsholders ask court for I.D. of customers of 13 ISPs
Media | 06/08/2017 1:55 pm EDT
Three movie studios have gone through the Canadian court system to identify...
New TV, streaming offerings eyed to help stem piracy
Media | 06/06/2017 3:26 pm EDT
TORONTO — Products like new streaming TV services and sports-focused TV-everywhere offerings will help...
NorthVu drops Bell IPTV patent case
Media | 05/31/2017 5:05 pm EDT
NorthVu Inc. has abandoned an appeal it filed with MediaTube Corp. in a dispute with BCE Inc. NorthVu filed a notice of discontinuance on May 23 in an appeal the two parties launched in February, against a January Federal...
ISED PS Lametti hot property for April lobbying
Media | 05/23/2017 3:30 pm EDT
The parliamentary secretary to the innovation minister was a popular target for lobbyists last month, as...
Appeal court rules ISPs can’t charge for disclosing customer info
Media | 05/11/2017 4:15 pm EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal has granted Voltage Pictures LLC its appeal challenging the costs Rogers Communications Inc. was asking for to disclose customer information in...
Canadian music streaming brings in $128M US: report
Media | 04/26/2017 5:43 pm EDT
Canada has become the world’s sixth-largest market for recorded music, according to a new report from the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The group’s 2017 Global Music Report said...
Ontario court bars FBI from handling Canadian data in piracy case
Media | 04/03/2017 8:43 pm EDT
Ontario’s highest court has reversed an order by a lower court to allow a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation team to investigate and prepare a report on seized data in a copyright infringement case. The case involves the now-defunct file-sharing site MegaUpload, its founder Kim Schmitz and data from 32 servers in an Equinix Inc. data centre in Toronto retrieved in 2012 by the RCMP. At the request of the FBI, the Minister of Justice in 2013 applied to have the servers transferred to the...
Notice-and-notice effect on piracy unclear ahead of copyright review
Media | 03/13/2017 8:39 pm EDT
As the federal government gears up to review the Copyright Act later this year, information about the rate of piracy in Canada remains elusive, two full years since the implementation of the...
Soccer league allowed to block servers in Kodi STB case: UK court
Media | 03/09/2017 9:10 pm EST
England’s biggest soccer league has been granted a court order to block computer servers that host and deliver content to a set-top box (STBs) application that allows users to watch its games...
Cost appeals filed by both parties in Voltage reverse class action
Media | 02/28/2017 8:10 pm EST
Appellant Voltage Pictures LLC is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to reverse a decision it made earlier this month forcing it to pay the court costs for the respondent if he wins his...
Patent infringement claim made against Shaw’s BlueSky TV
Media | 02/28/2017 5:27 pm EST
A Swiss corporation and two of its subsidiaries are alleging that Shaw Communications Inc.’s new IPTV service is infringing on a handful of its patents, according to a statement of claim...
Voltage on the hook for defendant costs in reverse class action
Media | 02/09/2017 10:31 pm EST
Plaintiff Voltage Pictures LLC is responsible for the defendant’s costs in a reverse class action suit until the certification process, a judge has ruled. In January, lawyers argued over whether Robert Salna should be able to recover his costs in the case. Salna was named as a defendant by Rogers Communications Inc. in the case, in which Voltage alleges Rogers customers have been illegally downloading its content. In a Feb. 2 decision, judge Keith Boswell, ordered Voltage to “give security for Mr. Salna’s costs in the amount of...
Appeal filed in Bell IPTV case
Media | 02/07/2017 9:09 pm EST
A lengthy legal battle between BCE Inc. and two companies that claim Bell infringed on their IPTV patent has been extended, one month after a Federal Court judge dismissed the case. MediaTube Corp. and NorthVu...
Defence costs at issue in Voltage reverse class action case
Media | 01/31/2017 11:06 pm EST
OTTAWA — Lawyers representing a defendant in a reverse class action case over a copyright infringement claim are asking a federal court judge to give their client an opportunity to recover costs...
32% of U.S. consumers watch pirated content: survey
Media | 01/19/2017 7:19 pm EST
A new survey has found that while the majority of United States respondents think consuming pirated video content is illegal, a chunk don’t seem to care how it impacts content creation. Despite about 69 per cent of U.S....
Unifor asks for suspension of SimSub ban
Media | 01/12/2017 5:12 pm EST
The union representing members of the television and media sectors is asking the CRTC to reverse or suspend its decision banning simultaneous substitution for the Super Bowl in order for its impact to be fully considered. In...
Federal Court tosses patent suit against Bell for IPTV technology
Media | 01/06/2017 9:42 pm EST
What began more than three years ago as a $350-million claim of patent infringement against BCE Inc. devolved into a pale imitation of its former self and will lead to...
Bell drops Zazeen suit
Media | 01/03/2017 9:27 pm EST
BCE Inc. has dropped its second lawsuit alleging copyright infringement against a small Internet protocol TV (IPTV) provider, following changes the company made to its service. Bell Media launched the action against Zazeen Inc. in November, alleging that the company was...
Bell, NFL file appeal of Super Bowl simsub rules
Media | 01/03/2017 8:41 pm EST
BCE Inc. and the National Football League (NFL) have filed appeals in federal court arguing that the CRTC lacks the authority to ban the use of simultaneous substitution for the Super Bowl. The latest appeals, filed Dec. 28,...
Bell targets second small IPTV provider over copyright claim
Media | 12/13/2016 7:28 pm EST
Zazeen Inc. is facing legal action from BCE Inc. over its Internet protocol TV (IPTV) service, with the incumbent calling the small provider’s service copyright infringement. In...
Overturn worldwide search result ban, Google asks Supreme Court
Media | 12/06/2016 10:42 pm EST
OTTAWA — Canada’s highest court heard arguments Tuesday on whether a court in Canada can order a worldwide ban on websites appearing on Alphabet Inc.’s Google search engine, with counsel for Google arguing that such a ban would infringe on its free expression rights to rank its search results and devalue the quality of its search results. The case involves Equustek Solutions Inc., the plaintiff in a case that alleges its former distributors, Datalink Technologies Gateways Inc., have been designing and selling counterfeit versions of their...
Artists ask Joly to ‘stand up for creators’
Media | 11/29/2016 5:41 pm EST
A coalition of artists, including authors, directors and musicians, is asking Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to consider the compensation artists receive as part of the ongoing review of Canadian content...
‘Virtually impossible’ to quantify damage from set-top boxes: telecoms
Media | 11/25/2016 10:07 pm EST
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron are asking a federal court judge to dismiss an appeal of an injunction banning sales of “pre-loaded”...
Voltage must pay disclosure costs: Rogers
Media | 11/25/2016 8:04 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to turn down Voltage Pictures LLC’s case to have the Internet service provider (ISP) pay for its own costs associated with retrieving subscriber...
Internet companies reach out to new U.S. leadership
Media | 11/14/2016 10:37 pm EST
An organization representing four-dozen major online-based companies has reached out to president-elect Donald Trump, congratulating him on his victory while proposing digital policy planks for his administration to consider....
Article-sharing copyright case dismissed
Media | 11/11/2016 7:46 pm EST
The Federal Court of Canada dismissed a copyright lawsuit Thursday involving the sharing of news articles without purchase or consent because the content was used for “proper research” purposes. The case involved the Department of Finance’s use and circulation of two articles in 2013, written by a reporter at subscription-based online news outlet Blacklock’s Reporter, that concerned parties within that department. Blacklock’s said those actions were against its terms and conditions. Sandra Marsden, president of the Canadian Sugar Institute, who was...
Bell asks for injunction against VMedia OTT service
Media | 10/04/2016 8:24 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is asking the Ontario Superior Court to grant an interim and permanent injunction to stop VMedia Inc. from delivering Bell's CTV channels on its over-the-top (OTT) service. VMedia began offering the...
VMedia fighting to keep CTV, CTV2 on OTT service
Media | 10/03/2016 9:25 pm EDT
VMedia Inc. is asking an Ontario court to step in and declare that its recently launched over-the-top (OTT) streaming television service is not infringing copyright, as claimed by BCE Inc., which wants the provider to...
Piracy lawsuit launched over Cell sharing
Media | 09/28/2016 9:45 pm EDT
An American film production company is looking to identify 12 Canadians it says infringed its copyright by file-sharing its content. In a statement of claim filed with the federal court on Tuesday, Cell Film Holdings LLC said it...
Fresh lawsuit filed in Stingray, Music Choice dispute
Media | 08/30/2016 8:53 pm EDT
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has responded to a patent infringement lawsuit filed by competitor Music Choice and filed its own suit against Music Choice alleging illegal business activities. In June, Music Choice, a...
Snapchat facing patent infringement lawsuit
Media | 08/24/2016 4:34 pm EDT
A Canadian company is suing Snapchat Inc. alleging it is infringing on its patented technology. Vancouver-based Investel Capital Corp. filed a statement of claim in federal court Wednesday claiming that the social media giant...
Voltage appealing disclosure costs in piracy case
telecom | 08/10/2016 7:41 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. should not be able to charge for the release of the personal information of a customer accused of violating the copyright of Voltage Pictures LLC, the film production company said in new...
Court OKs disclosure of customer info in Voltage case
Media | 07/28/2016 10:13 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. must disclose the personal information of a customer accused by Voltage Pictures LLC of violating its copyright, according to a court decision that experts said clarifies the...
Music Canada settles with isoHunt
Media | 07/25/2016 8:14 pm EDT
Music Canada has reached a settlement with isoHunt Web Technologies Inc. in a copyright infringement lawsuit, years after the isoHunt website shut down. The organization, which represents major record companies in Canada, said in...
Set-top box retailer involved in software development, BDUs claim
Media | 07/22/2016 3:55 pm EDT
A trio of telecom companies are doubling down on their assertion that preloaded set-top box retailers are complicit in TV piracy, according to new court documents filed in their ongoing fight to permanently end the sale of the devices loaded with software they say allows users to access their content for free. In their July 15 reply to a statement of defence and counterclaim filed by one of the retailers, lawyers for BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron not...