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Bell Canada Launches Its Own Online Video Store

Posted by Soulskill on from the pay-no-attention-to-the-isp-behind-the-curtain dept.

rsax writes "Bell Canada recently announced that it is launching a downloadable video store just as it is caught up in a government inquiry into its traffic-shaping practices. Some consider this a conflict of interest since several content providers were in the process of distributing TV shows using P2P technology before the Bell throttling issue started getting media coverage. Bell's FAQ states that it is not available for Mac users right now (and not Linux either of course) because they are using Windows Media DRM. They do, however, invite feedback on their site."

5 of 106 comments (clear)

  1. Conflict of interest... by TRAyres · · Score: 5, Funny

    And they have a form for feedback? Brace for obvious shit storm...

  2. Re:can traffic shaping be proved in court? by _generica · · Score: 4, Funny

    kernal?

  3. They only carry 2 movies though, by hyperz69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Strange Brew and Canadian Bacon.

  4. Re:can traffic shaping be proved in court? by compro01 · · Score: 3, Funny

    my spellchequer is dephective.

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  5. No feed back limit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The feedback page is sending two emails each time you send a feedback. The feedback system doesnt have any limit (like cookie or anything else). Anyone got some time to write a bot to crash an ISP? :D