 SpikePremium
join:2008-05-16
Toronto, ON | reply to DKS
Re: DTV illegal in Canada? What is the legal justification? said by DKS:Don't know much about ethics, do you? 
Ethics also works both ways, and as long as its all one-sided against the public, its fair-game.
The TPP for example also wants to remove cancon requirements. |
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 DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON
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 ·Bell Sympatico
| said by Spike:said by DKS:Don't know much about ethics, do you?
Ethics also works both ways, and as long as its all one-sided against the public, its fair-game. The TPP for example also wants to remove cancon requirements. What is "against the public"? It is a foundationally capitalistic business model based on paying for distribution.
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SpikePremium
join:2008-05-16
Toronto, ON | said by DKS:What is "against the public"? It is a foundationally capitalistic business model based on paying for distribution.
Okay, so American DTV on Canadian soil is illegal and can throw you in jail,
yet at the same time the user can simply use P2P and get the same (and more) content (all commercial-free and time-shifted), and fall under civil reaching laws rather than criminal.
Yes, makes sense to me too.
EDIT: Yes, I know in the P2P case the incumbents still get to pilfer you on internet costs. |
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 IanPremium
join:2002-06-18
ON
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 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
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said by DKS:What is "against the public"? It is a foundationally capitalistic business model based on paying for distribution.
Actually, the model you're describing is quite far from capitalistic. So the Government of Canada can sell the right to broadcast a signal to me? Says who? At what point did I give that right to them for them to re-sell it? Did they buy the right from me before re-selling it? If so, I'm still waiting for my cut. 
Strictly capitalistic would be for anyone that can afford to launch a satellite to compete with others in getting me to open my chequebook to subscribe to the services of that broadcast. I really don't care if the company is based in the US, Canada, or Latvia.
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| ok so its illegal but dishnetwork still accepts canadian credit cards....... allows SLING access from Canada.
So its illegal for me to be a verizon wireless customer ROAMING in Canada and open up VERIZON TV on my mobile phone?
Verizon EVEN ACCEPTS CANADIANS with CANADIAN CREDIT FILE>.... |
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