Comments for at http://www.michaelgeist.ca , comment 1 to 20 out of 20 comments http://www.michaelgeist.ca Sat, 25 May 2013 18:09:07 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6855/125/#comment-52759 the open media people are cir'ing a petation, one of several hammering the harper gov't today. sign 'em all, collect the whole set. woo-hoo! save the CBC from overight, PETRS (pacfic trade), anti-spyware (this), robo calls, f-35 plus the idiocy stuff.. duf, et al. OK, what's getting snuck by in the mindless sound +fury here? More monsanto? NAFTA? 6 million immigrants with a quebec subsiity? worse yet, this is just another day in the life... have a slice, people. pat donovan - pat donovan Thu, 23 May 2013 10:51:00 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6699/125/#comment-52757 "My math is really rusty but how do you get 49%" 206/138 = 1.493 = 149.3% = 49.3% increase. - Alsee Wed, 22 May 2013 11:42:52 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6851/125/#comment-52756 I would like to know who makes up this board and what are their backgrounds, expertise and affiliations. Is the membership of the board balanced with members from industry, academia and the public? If not then why? Also, does the board not have to follow the results of the SC decisions or are they able to interpret them as they wish? - Crockett Tue, 21 May 2013 18:38:00 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6851/125/#comment-52755 I've written a follow up to this. Had my own experience with the copyright board in 2010: http://jkoblovsky.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/copyright-board-of-canada-under-scrutiny/ - Jason K Tue, 21 May 2013 14:58:04 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6728/125/#comment-52754 Regardless of where AC takes this debate, they will have to contend with fair dealing. They can ignore it all they want, but any action or application will ultimately hinge on an interpretation of fair dealing, and I don't believe AC can handle the fallout. - Kools Tue, 21 May 2013 13:20:26 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6849/125/#comment-52753 What is important for the CRTC and James Moore is to start to consider ways to wein canadian content producers from their dependence on vertically integrated companies, and shift funding for "essential" services such as CPAC away from BDUs. The 9-1h hearings showed how many content producers still rely on what is essentially content welfare decided by the CRTC instead of boldly launching their services on the internet and do away with their dependence on BDUs/linear TV regulatory infrastructure. - Jean-Francois Mezei Tue, 21 May 2013 12:35:32 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6849/125/#comment-52752 Two years ago it was estimated that Netflix uses approximately 1/3 of the bandwidth in the US. That sounds like a good argument for companies to argue against its expansion into Canada and other countries, but the spread of content across cultures is worth the extra bandwidth. Without Netflix very few Americans would have seen such programs as Slings and Arrows. It's a new model, but it is time for cable and satellite providers to realize that they no longer own the market and that they need to become competitive in order to survive. Emergency Water Damage Vancouver - Mac Tue, 21 May 2013 12:08:34 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6851/125/#comment-52751 are they de-regulating anything as well? how 'bout giving discounts to 'special' cases... like an Indian TV sat program (aka fox news in a new clothes) declaring 'their' copy of an old book is being violated and demanding royalties? I really don't know which of swift's 'flatter. informer or thug' (sic) got in there... and it's probably all three. pat - pat donovan Tue, 21 May 2013 10:03:50 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6849/125/#comment-52750 I really enjoyed what you had to say. Keep going because you definitely bring a new voice to this subject. 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Sooner or later the flood gates will burst and Netflix will have more power then the entrenched media that is attempting to bury them so hard. - Laer Mon, 20 May 2013 06:14:38 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6837/125/#comment-52747 To get the wee amount of around £ 100, the applicants require completing the loan application form. So wretched candidates are registering on the official website of the lender. Through the website of the lender, the applicants are also able to read all the terms and conditions of loans text easily. After that, they can make the decision to apply for the necessary fund. These loans are arranged only for the short term. Therefore, there is no need to feel the weight of the amount gained. The loan can be returned within 7 days only. And the brokers are getting regular paychecks week. 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If Canadian content, by necessity, can be inspired to greater excellence then we are all winners. - Crockett Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:40 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1571/125/#comment-52744 exactly i can not understand difference between drm and tpm tell me more if u can? - adel Fri, 17 May 2013 17:41:42 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6847/125/#comment-52743 I've read a number of chapters and found them to be most helpful and relatively easy to understand, given the subject matter. Thanks for all your work in putting this together and for making it freely available. - Frank Fri, 17 May 2013 14:31:32 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6849/125/#comment-52742 Every budding monopolist will eventually play the "foreign competition" card. This is not really specific to any particular industry. History has shown that this is exactly backwards. Industries with little domestic competition fall quickly to outside companies from highly competitive places. Such domestic industries simply do not know what to do. Size just makes the process take longer. The real defence against foreign competition is a competitive domestic market. - bwalzer Fri, 17 May 2013 10:06:11 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6789/125/#comment-52741 I generally like Michael's posts, but the ones on the proposed anti-spam legislation are disingenuous at best. The subtle narrative of these posts always seems to be that big business is looking to screw the little guy by cramming their inboxes full of spam. I'm not a fan of spam messages, but posts like this one oversimplify and gloss over some real problems with the legislation in favour of Michael's preferred narrative. As currently drafted, this legislation is overly broad in that it will capture a wide array of messages that most people would not consider to be spam, and will impose a significant compliance burden on businesses that will be passed on to consumers, and all for little real benefit. The requirements for tracking opt-in consents IS in fact different than tracking opt-out consents under privacy legislation. The legislation is also extremely complicated and contains the potential for millions of dollars in penalties, which seems disproportionate to the problem. Again, I'm not a fan of spam, but I think posts like this one do readers a real disservice. - ninjalawyer Thu, 16 May 2013 17:10:49 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6849/125/#comment-52740 And all this will fall to the need to censor don cherry's quebec remarks. I betcha. Security will be the excuse for FOX, sun, bell and other corp ploys. (And they have the ability to deliver the country's BEST blackmail system. And pass the costs on to consumers for it. Social-be's have fail built right into their systems, too. An exclusive network, expensive, limited in content, and targets only those involed? The method of beating them is built right in, AND they'll do it to themselves. The next step should be a canada-only You-tube they can safely steal from; ie: the brit method of stripping IDs, calling it orphan and abusing it to your hearts content. Off topic, yes. Part of a larger gestault, yes. And since questioning authority makes you a traitor, prepare to be admin'd to death. Sat-services for me. My dish still does what i tell it to. - pat donovan Thu, 16 May 2013 10:15:00 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6847/125/#comment-52739 This is the type of update that I would like myself to be aware of. Thanks for sharing! - Steve MacDonald Thu, 16 May 2013 05:41:55 +0100 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6844/125/#comment-52736 It looks like Minister Paradis is also backpeddling on the international price rankings. He can't jepardize his credibility by making claims about pricing that aren't supported by legitimate and current studies. On the other hand, OpenMedia has gone so far out on a limb with balatantly wrong pricing claims that they can't back out - and now they have to live with the dubious reputation they have created for themselves. Sucks to be them ... - Cynic Wed, 15 May 2013 11:03:32 +0100