It's 55% from 6pm to midnight, however, part of the way they get around it is that commercials are included which means they only need to air 66 minutes of non-commercial Canadian content during that period. Usually that takes the form of news.
The Microsoft case is definitely interesting but ultimately it comes down to origin of the data. I suspect that it'll end up coming down to a question of whether or not the data originated in the US (ie US user on US soil submitting the information) and is then delivered to another country. If the latter is the case then the new country does not have full jurisdiction over the data - just like if a company shipped paper documents to another country they'd be guilty of obstructing an investigation.
As to the jurisdictional issue, just look at the Microsoft case, similar cases in the UK, and ones in Canada (see links in other post for examples). Like it or not it's the reality.
Your point? ABC/NBC/Fox/etc are not Canadian companies, they still have to comply with CanCon rules within Canada. Netflix is operating under an exemption from those rules right now.
why does anyone other than netflix need to know who their customers are?
They weren't asking for who the customers where, they were asking for a total subscriber number (I'd suspect to help assess the scale of "new media" vs traditional broadcaster market penetration), information on Canadian content (aggregate, anonymous information not customer specific), and information on PIPEDA compliance (Canadian privacy law).
... by operating in Canada they must provide the information.
Netflix maintains that they do not operate in Canada. They do not have Canadian employees, nor do they have offices in Canada.
This is a common misconception. You do not need to have a physical presence in a country anymore to be operating there. You need "significant ties" - hundreds of thousands/millions of customers qualifies as "significant ties".
Not if you go with a company like Teksavvy or Start - aside from offering unlimited data plans, they also offer 300gb plans where uploads are not counted and 2am-8am is not counted. Teksavvy even has a "Zap the Cap" program where you can get a cheaper capped plan and still get unlimited data by allowing speeds to be slowed from 8pm to midnight. It's opt in, and you can opt-out any time.
Check the facts before making snap judgements. This article is blatantly misleading to the events that actually occurred. Here's the actual video from the hearing:
Summary: Commission is seeking information to make a decision - even in its conversation with Netflix they state they are not leaning in any direction (regulation or deregulation). The commission requested information, Netflix rep refused to commit to provide it. This pissed off the head of the CRTC because Netflix doesn't have a choice - by operating in Canada they must provide the information. The CRTC repeatedly had to make it an order for Netflix to provide the information it was requesting to backup assertions made by Netflix to the commission with actual facts/data.
LOL - that's true, unfortunately the philosophy degree she has already gave her training in advanced bullshit, the english degree provided the creative lying, and a monkey could do the rest.
Editorial Internship: Filling out passport documents, writing fictional reviews for a travel magazine of places she'd never been to (even though the owner was *paid* to come and stay to review them), and generally spending most of the day searching for stock photos that the magazine hadn't previously used.
Give them an external hdd to save their files onto. If they want to permanently install a program they have to call for instructions. It sounds like a lot more work but I'm telling you it's such a simple solution. I did it for my autistic sister-in-law - once a year I run maintenance. The only annoying part is disabling all the auto-updating crap.
"one in three were working under conditions of forced labor."
Those stats are amazing! 3 in 5 graduates work in forced labour conditions in Canada/US. They just call them internships.
One person I know, 2 degrees, 1 professional certificate, 2 years of internships. Coming up on a decade of paying for training, working for free, and finding no one will hire because they can just exploit the next slave.
You ignored the "when counting unique entities" - quantum physics does not count unique entities. An electron or a photon, etc are always going to react the same way given a set of forces/characteristics and therefore are not unique. Human beings on the other hand are all unique and even a single individual can provide different results on a single repeated test.
Yes, because wiki is all things accurate. lol Just for shits and giggles lets go with wiki:
"Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe."
"Mathematics is the study of topics such as quantity (numbers), structure, space, and change"
Those quantities, structures, spaces, and change do not have to apply to our universe. You can use mathematics to describe numerous possible universes or abstract structures/spaces/changes which make sense mathematically but may or may not exist in our universe. As such it becomes a tool used by science to perform tests, develop knowledge/explanations/predictions, etc about the observable universe.
You point out this: "Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviours." note the word applied - science is not about applications. Remove the word scientific from that sentence and my "definition" (which incorporated the gist definition plus the context of the discussion here) holds up just fine. My statement: "Psychology [is the] application of (aka applied discipline) general observations (aka study) of behaviours (aka mental functions and behaviours) in a population to a group or individual (subject of application which wiki is missing)" wiki inserts the word "scientific" but that would require two individuals to be identical in every way and have identical responses given a certain set of conditions. You could even give the same test to the same individual and get different results, which by wiki's definition would mean it fails the "testable" portion of the definition.
I did not say that, I said that disciplines that rely on statistics based on unique entities are not scientific in nature. Studies of psychology/religion/etc are valuable but they fall under the realm of humanities not sciences. Psychology using mathematical tools (statistics) to identify characteristics is admirable but for it to be scientific it must be repeatable which it can never be given any unique subject.
Statistics: technically not a science, it falls under the domain of Mathematics (STEM - Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Technology). Meteorology: This is a science. While only limited data is looked at due to the complexity of systems, just because you don't need to identify every detail of the forces involved doesn't change the fact that they are there and explainable/repeatable using the scientific method. Biology: see Meteorology Chemistry: see Meteorology
Neuroscience = the science which has the same characteristics of Meteorology Psychology = application of general observations of behaviours in a population to a group or individual
Quantum mechanics deals with behaviour of matter/energy which are not unique. Remember one of the core tenants of science: it must be repeatable. A test developed to observe the behaviour of matter/energy will act consistently when applied consistently. A test to observe human behaviours related to psychology/religion/etc will not act consistently when applied consistently.
As to psychology: It is a real science. It deals with statistics and larger numbers, not really with individuals though. That is usually misunderstood.
Psychology, like religion, can be quantified in generalities by science but cannot be true subjects as statistics are useless when counting unique entities.
lol - I want to know what any of these subjects have to do with each other. Science has nothing to do with religion or lack there of. Emotion can inspire science, provide motivation, and excitement for the results but it has no place in the application or interpretation otherwise it's just opinion. That's why psychology will never be a real science and will eventually be replaced by neurology.
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They didn't ask for subscriber lists - they asked for the total number of subscribers only.
It's 55% from 6pm to midnight, however, part of the way they get around it is that commercials are included which means they only need to air 66 minutes of non-commercial Canadian content during that period. Usually that takes the form of news.
The Microsoft case is definitely interesting but ultimately it comes down to origin of the data. I suspect that it'll end up coming down to a question of whether or not the data originated in the US (ie US user on US soil submitting the information) and is then delivered to another country. If the latter is the case then the new country does not have full jurisdiction over the data - just like if a company shipped paper documents to another country they'd be guilty of obstructing an investigation.
As to the jurisdictional issue, just look at the Microsoft case, similar cases in the UK, and ones in Canada (see links in other post for examples). Like it or not it's the reality.
There are a bunch of cases out there in Canada/UK/US (like the Microsoft/Ireland case posted by taustin)
Here's a nice summary by a law firm from a privacy standpoint: http://www.nixonpeabody.com/fi... which is based on rulings like: https://www.priv.gc.ca/cf-dc/2...
Except Netflix is **not** a Canadian company.
Your point? ABC/NBC/Fox/etc are not Canadian companies, they still have to comply with CanCon rules within Canada. Netflix is operating under an exemption from those rules right now.
Yay useless, ad hominem comments.
why does anyone other than netflix need to know who their customers are?
They weren't asking for who the customers where, they were asking for a total subscriber number (I'd suspect to help assess the scale of "new media" vs traditional broadcaster market penetration), information on Canadian content (aggregate, anonymous information not customer specific), and information on PIPEDA compliance (Canadian privacy law).
... by operating in Canada they must provide the information.
Netflix maintains that they do not operate in Canada. They do not have Canadian employees, nor do they have offices in Canada.
This is a common misconception. You do not need to have a physical presence in a country anymore to be operating there. You need "significant ties" - hundreds of thousands/millions of customers qualifies as "significant ties".
Not if you go with a company like Teksavvy or Start - aside from offering unlimited data plans, they also offer 300gb plans where uploads are not counted and 2am-8am is not counted. Teksavvy even has a "Zap the Cap" program where you can get a cheaper capped plan and still get unlimited data by allowing speeds to be slowed from 8pm to midnight. It's opt in, and you can opt-out any time.
You mean you actually don't use your Canadian sub to access the US system?
Canada is their 2nd most successful market.
Check the facts before making snap judgements. This article is blatantly misleading to the events that actually occurred. Here's the actual video from the hearing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Summary: Commission is seeking information to make a decision - even in its conversation with Netflix they state they are not leaning in any direction (regulation or deregulation). The commission requested information, Netflix rep refused to commit to provide it. This pissed off the head of the CRTC because Netflix doesn't have a choice - by operating in Canada they must provide the information. The CRTC repeatedly had to make it an order for Netflix to provide the information it was requesting to backup assertions made by Netflix to the commission with actual facts/data.
LOL - that's true, unfortunately the philosophy degree she has already gave her training in advanced bullshit, the english degree provided the creative lying, and a monkey could do the rest.
Editorial Internship: Filling out passport documents, writing fictional reviews for a travel magazine of places she'd never been to (even though the owner was *paid* to come and stay to review them), and generally spending most of the day searching for stock photos that the magazine hadn't previously used.
Say it with me: Deep Freeze.
Give them an external hdd to save their files onto. If they want to permanently install a program they have to call for instructions. It sounds like a lot more work but I'm telling you it's such a simple solution. I did it for my autistic sister-in-law - once a year I run maintenance. The only annoying part is disabling all the auto-updating crap.
"one in three were working under conditions of forced labor."
Those stats are amazing! 3 in 5 graduates work in forced labour conditions in Canada/US. They just call them internships.
One person I know, 2 degrees, 1 professional certificate, 2 years of internships. Coming up on a decade of paying for training, working for free, and finding no one will hire because they can just exploit the next slave.
Add something to the discussion or gtfo
lol - amazing how people twist words.
You ignored the "when counting unique entities" - quantum physics does not count unique entities. An electron or a photon, etc are always going to react the same way given a set of forces/characteristics and therefore are not unique. Human beings on the other hand are all unique and even a single individual can provide different results on a single repeated test.
Yes, because wiki is all things accurate. lol Just for shits and giggles lets go with wiki:
"Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe."
"Mathematics is the study of topics such as quantity (numbers), structure, space, and change"
Those quantities, structures, spaces, and change do not have to apply to our universe. You can use mathematics to describe numerous possible universes or abstract structures/spaces/changes which make sense mathematically but may or may not exist in our universe. As such it becomes a tool used by science to perform tests, develop knowledge/explanations/predictions, etc about the observable universe.
You point out this: "Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviours." note the word applied - science is not about applications. Remove the word scientific from that sentence and my "definition" (which incorporated the gist definition plus the context of the discussion here) holds up just fine. My statement: "Psychology [is the] application of (aka applied discipline) general observations (aka study) of behaviours (aka mental functions and behaviours) in a population to a group or individual (subject of application which wiki is missing)" wiki inserts the word "scientific" but that would require two individuals to be identical in every way and have identical responses given a certain set of conditions. You could even give the same test to the same individual and get different results, which by wiki's definition would mean it fails the "testable" portion of the definition.
I did not say that, I said that disciplines that rely on statistics based on unique entities are not scientific in nature. Studies of psychology/religion/etc are valuable but they fall under the realm of humanities not sciences. Psychology using mathematical tools (statistics) to identify characteristics is admirable but for it to be scientific it must be repeatable which it can never be given any unique subject.
Statistics: technically not a science, it falls under the domain of Mathematics (STEM - Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Technology).
Meteorology: This is a science. While only limited data is looked at due to the complexity of systems, just because you don't need to identify every detail of the forces involved doesn't change the fact that they are there and explainable/repeatable using the scientific method.
Biology: see Meteorology
Chemistry: see Meteorology
Neuroscience = the science which has the same characteristics of Meteorology
Psychology = application of general observations of behaviours in a population to a group or individual
Quantum mechanics deals with behaviour of matter/energy which are not unique. Remember one of the core tenants of science: it must be repeatable. A test developed to observe the behaviour of matter/energy will act consistently when applied consistently. A test to observe human behaviours related to psychology/religion/etc will not act consistently when applied consistently.
Well said.
As to psychology: It is a real science. It deals with statistics and larger numbers, not really with individuals though. That is usually misunderstood.
Psychology, like religion, can be quantified in generalities by science but cannot be true subjects as statistics are useless when counting unique entities.
lol - I want to know what any of these subjects have to do with each other. Science has nothing to do with religion or lack there of. Emotion can inspire science, provide motivation, and excitement for the results but it has no place in the application or interpretation otherwise it's just opinion. That's why psychology will never be a real science and will eventually be replaced by neurology.
I need a job, I program.