Canada busts people for US Satellite subscriptions

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Originally Posted by sggg

I am so happy that they are finally cracking down on these people. I don't care if someone is paying DirecTV/Dish Network or not, they are clearly breaking the law.

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Umm, yeah? Rogers and Bell rape their consumers with overinflatted pricing for everything they carry, especially their cable/sat packages. I could give a fuck less about my exposure to second rate CBC shows with a budget of fifty dollars. Who does the government think they are discerning which broadcasts I can/cannot listen to or view? The nazis did that, ya know. I feel that limiting my freedom in a way that isn't detrimental to anyone else is a travesty, and I can expose myself to whichever news programme/TV show I feel like. Different perspectives are great, it is a democracy after all.

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Originally Posted by sggg

I miss watching the New Jersey Devils hockey games, broadcast from my native homeland of New Jersey, according to this logic would that justify me breaking the law too? Access to *TV* is not a human right for crying out loud. :rolleyes:

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No, but air is, and its broadcast through the airwaves. What is wrong with you wanting to see the game from your homeland? I see nothing wrong with it, who is the government to tell you that you can or cannot do that? I hardly feel bad that Ted Rogers is without my eighty dollars a month for 50 channels, after all suckers like you still line his pockets.

It also should be noted Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace, one of the bands launched thanks to the CRTC has publicly stated that the laws are both outdated and redicuous. In radio for instance, he suggested that indie music be required, not Canadian. This works two fold because the majority of indie bands would be local to the station [ie Canadian], and takes away the crtuch of playing OLP/The Hip/Sum 41 in order to hit CRTC quota. Bands should be played because their good, just like shows, not because they're Canadian.

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Originally Posted by Gibbits

Bands should be played because their good, just like shows, not because they're Canadian.

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Though I've little opinion of the rest of post, and have no opinion on the topic of the thread, I couldn't agree with the above more.

This is a MAJOR problem in this country.

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Originally Posted by Spike

We get treated like shit up here. No Cartoon Network. We get Teletoon, where even the Bugs Bunny cartoons are completely edited for violent content. We get feeds switched over to Canadian channels for shows that run on both. Want to see the preview for the next 24? Too damn bad. Want to see the Star Wars Clone Wars cartoons? You gotta wait until sometime next year.

The CRTC is evil. They decide which content is appropriate for Canadians to view, and how that content is to be carried. I'm sorry, but I don't support regulation of what I want to watch. Neither should you.

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Edited versions of Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, or any other cartoon can fuck off. What's the point when the comic violence is taken out? It's not just kids under 10 who watch them. Even so, the violence in these cartoons is clearly fantasy and not nearly as intense as some of the "mature" stuff and unedited movies that can be shown on Canadian TV. I think Teletoon may have an unfair double standard on what age group they think a cartoon is aimed at.

Territorial licensing crap and regulation of content can be a pain sometimes.

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Originally Posted by Gibbits

Umm, yeah? Rogers and Bell rape their consumers with overinflatted pricing for everything they carry, especially their cable/sat packages.

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Dish television, and all television for that matter, is far cheaper in the in Canada than it is in the US. That's a fact. The only way it's cheaper is if you're a thief. You may still misguidedly think it's expensive, but that still does not give one the right to steal it.

All of my American friends and family are quite jealous of what great value we get here (not just for TV but also things like DSL).

Hmm....so because I buy the import version of a game from Japan, Im depriving the US video game industry of money, therefore giving the US video game industry a right to stop me from importing? I think not. I can buy what I want with my money, if I want to buy a superior or inferior product is up to my decision, not the government's.

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Originally Posted by Gibbits

Umm, yeah? Rogers and Bell rape their consumers with overinflatted pricing for everything they carry, especially their cable/sat packages.

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Don't forget Cogeco.

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Originally Posted by Gibbits

No, but air is, and its broadcast through the airwaves.

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As I said before, if the government didn't regulate the airwaves, it would be chaos.

You'd be watching your favourite show, or listening to your favourite radio station, and then someone else would turn on a more powerful transmitter and overpower the signal you were tuned into. All of a sudden it turns into a broadcasting tug-of-war.

The airwaves are a limited resource. They HAVE to be regulated, or nothing would work at all.



ANYWAYS... I was down in the US last week visiting someone, and I was extremely disappointed with the selection they had on cable. Out of 70 channels, there were about 10 channels of nothing but text, 5 carbon-copy news channels of the exact same format, 3 women's channels, a bloody Hallmark channel of all things, and not much of interest aside from Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. Even Sci-Fi... Space up here gives me a better selection of programming, IMHO.

So, what I'm saying is, there's not much worthwhile on US TV that we don't already get. (And we get alot of it.) I'd rather see more funding go to CBC, Showcase, and Comedy Network. Those channels can create amazing programming, given the proper resources.

I would have killed for another season of CBC's Twitch City.

Also, these are the channels I can get on my Cogeco cable service.

Hardly a bad selection.

My $.02...
If it has commercials, I'm not paying for it, period.
If the electromagnetic signal passes through my home, not to mention my own body, I will do whatever I damn well please with it.
Fuck Bell Canada. Those assholes have held back the rollout of voice over IP to protect their telephone monopoly, not to mention overcharging their customers and providing unforgivably shitty service (their DSL service is the work of Satan himself).
I can't wait till we have internet based media that can compete with cable/satellite and circumvent all this regulatory bullshit. At least we have mirc...
I can't believethat this is what the Canadian gov't wastes it's time and our money on, protecting big greedy corporations while our healthcare and education go down the shitter. They didn't give a shit about us watching US satelite before expressvu came out, but now that there is money at stake, they act like it's some big moral crusade. Oh well, what can you expect from a country run by a guy that we didn't even elect.

Simple solution: If it sucks living here, move to the US.