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Canadian Broadcasters Seek New Internet Regulation

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the new-interference-commission dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist's weekly Toronto Star column reports that the Canadian broadcasting community, including broadcasters, copyright collectives, and actor labor unions, are all calling on Canada's broadcast regulator to increase its regulation of the Internet. Some groups want sites such as YouTube to be subject to Canadian content requirements, while the broadcasters want to stop U.S. broadcasters from streaming television shows online into Canada."

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  1. eh? by virchull · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If Canada doesn't want our streaming video, then the US can stop using Canadian newsprint paper supply. Is that a fair trade, eh?

  2. Re:Can't be done. by metamatic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, I've visited Canadian art museums in Quebec and BC, and I'm afraid my viewpoint is that quotas and subsidy have resulted in a lot of really bad third-rate art. Whereas the UK has no quotas forcing anyone to feature UK artists on radio or TV, yet continues to have world-class TV and music.

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  3. To be fair... by Bishopus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    without the many trade policies that protect them, ALL canadian broadcasters, TV and movie production companies, book retailers, book publishers, toy manufacturers and retailers, sporting goods manufacturers, ISPs, cellular service providers, and donutiers would be flat-ass out of business. And GOD I can't wait for the day when that happens. There's nothing more infuriating than mediocrity, served up because someone wanted to protect a nonexistent 'heritage'.