jfmezeiPremium
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Pointe-Claire, QC
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Re: Retail ISPs not subject to Broadcasting Act, court rules Walled garden IPTV services such as Bell's FibTV, Telus' Optik and Colba's offering are fully regulated BDUs just like cable and satellite providers.
But OTT services such as netflix, youtube and others are not because they are not a BDU. |
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 SHY0x27Premium
join:2010-06-21
Cote Saint-Luc, QC
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Doesn't anyone understand the implications of this judgement?
It means that if you now have an unlimited account with any of the Indie ISP's, you can subscribe to any of the over the top services like Netflix and cut your cable tv if you wish. There is no longer any worry that the government or the CRTC will regulate the OTT services. They can operate with impunity. Their services are now declared legal.
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| said by SHY:Doesn't anyone understand the implications of this judgement?
There is no longer any worry that the government or the CRTC will regulate the OTT services. The judgment only means that internet service is not equivalent to BDU, it has no implication for OTT services nor the possibility that the CRTC might re-classify them from unregulated "new media" broadcasting to regular broadcasting. |
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said by SHY:But you guys haven't read through the whole story. This is not about ISP's selling tv service. This is about the over the top services like Netflix being regulated as broadcasters. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that they are not broadcasters and thus there is no problem with their offering of services. That is what this ruling is about. Totally wrong interpretation on your part. When you watch Netflix via internet there are 2 entirely separate issues...
•your ISP is not considered a BDU (e.g. Rogers Cable or Bell IPTV)
•this has nothing to with whether or not Netflix is considered a broadcaster
The corporate welfare bums known as "the arts community" wanted a Kanadian Kulture tax slapped onto our internet bills. That's what this decision stopped. It says nothing about slapping a "Culture" tax on Netflix. |
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