The Content Industry Connect conference, which was held in Toronto yesterday, featured a panel of leading television executives from Bell, the CBC, Corus, Rogers, and Shaw Media. Several people were live-tweeting the event when a comment from Rogers Senior Vice President David Purdy caught my eye. According to Kelly Lynne Ashton, a media policy expert, Purdy called on the Canadian government to shut down the use of virtual private networks:
Digging Into the Government’s Online News Act Claims, Part Two: This is “Minimal Market Intervention”?! 
Digging Into the Government’s Online News Act Claims, Part One: Compensation For “Use” of News Content 
Keeping the Bill C-11 Implementation Secret, Regulating User Content, and Citing Non-Existent Benefits: Some Reflections on the House of Commons Online Streaming Act Debate 
The Government’s Gaslighting of the Online Streaming Act (Or Why Bill C-11 Regulates User Generated Content) 
Standing on a Shaky Foundation: What Lies Behind The Near-Impossible Challenge of Updating Canada’s Outdated Cancon Rules
Michael Geist
mgeist@uottawa.ca
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