Remember folks using a proxy/tool too bypass geo-fencing (DRM) has no "safe harbor" in Canada. You cant jailbreak and have no "right to repair" up here either. People break the law all the time though.

There is no "DCMA" in Canada and fair use is explicitly given(specific methods depending on the creative product) not implicitly(free for all in the us). Commentary is not "fair use" either. Technically using encrypted torrents is "espionage" too but that's another story

Hence using a proxy or VPN is ILLEGAL in my country to get around what I'm going to talk about. Even if people use it en masse they'll make VPNs a licensed product in Canada.

I want you to read this Wikipedia Article and bask in its absurdity. Its why the CBC is so hated and loathed and why no one under 30 watches it despite them forcing it down our faces. Half the country cant afford cable or even gets an Antenna signal anyways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canad....._protectionism

Then read this for a primer. There is specific legislation but wiki reads easy. Every TV producer in Canada including cable specialty channels (and all the major ones are owned by 2 or 3 companies) are forced to play by these rules. If they don't they can essentially be fined, jailed and forced off the air. (I'd like to see this will be enforced online--without going china syndrome however).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content
(I call it propaganda for a reason)



Then here it comes. Unfortunately its a news-wire story and right now as i write this only 2 carriers are displaying it. this one has no paywall but it reads the same. No legislation has been tabled yet so be sure to stay tuned when i tear it apart upon tabling.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/cana.....PQN?li=AAggXBV



That's right folks.

The Canadian government wants to force Netflix and other streamers (the ones you can legally get) to shove more "Canadian content" down our throats and against our wills. They wanna subject streamers to "broadcasting regulations" which means blocking out up to 40% of anything not Canadian from Netflix--regardless of wither the user wants it or not.

They wanna "promote" force streamers to display Canadian content OVER what is popular and desirable. Most likely what is profitable too because Canadians fled to Netflix after canon ruined cable TV. Cancon and 'sim-subbing' pretty much ruined OTA where it can be found(and its foot print is shrinking) as people fled to cable and politics is killing it. Then people fled cable to Netflix because of convenience.

Now Neflix is being subject to propaganda rules as well.
This is regardless of a huge half-billion dollar investment by Netflix into "Cancon'(rules as described by the wiki article) in January.

The fact of the matter is.

Most cancon is crappy propaganda and people don't wanna watch that shit anymore PERIOD. Not when there is soo much better outside of the country that is available more then ever(legally too). Aside from maybe one out of every thousand productions (Corner Gas being a favorite among many internationally) most of it is horrible, out of date culturally, boring, and many times stupidly done to make quotas (not entertain at all) People deliberately avoid it in results and will find every way they can to bypass it if "promoted in algorithms" and as alternatives exist. People WILL break the law to get non-cancon and will quit spending money if they are forced to watch something they don't want. ESPECIALLY if they have to pay for it. You have to resort to "extreme" measures to stop this.

I don't see how under these rules aside from quotas (Netflix cant even access media development funding to fill them and has to take revenue from other sources/countries to pay for Cancon) Netflix and others can continue to survive providing content to Canadians. This is Netflix only though. You have so many other providers that are gonna be denied (Crunchyroll and Disney+ anyone?) access to the market that people are gonna break the law in mass to get their content fix.


Being on ODSP I cant afford the necessary internet connection for Netflix and other streaming (I get free shared cable internet among 4 people as a part of my lease. its 60mbps download unlimited usage but torrents and downloads are "DPI" throttled). I am unable to even have a credit card to pay for anything premium nor can i afford it at all. Hence, I don't stream media at all. I even quit downloading anime as i lost interest in it a long time ago.

Youtube however.... yeah... Good luck ever seeing that site again.

I don't play video games. I don't watch movies. I don't even have a TV --so this rule doesnt really effect me.

Unless they started forcing cancon on FA or other art sites and forums and the like. There is talk of "regulating social media for Cancon" as well but I don't know what their targets are for it (media, news aggregation and more "simsubbing" maybe?).

They wanna judge it "site by site" which is running into slippery slope territory...

I wouldn't put it past them to try and put more "pressure" on the internet to protect Canadian content though. Even to try and 'enforce' it...

Ill leave this rant with a slippery slope statement. Because "Canadian propaganda rules" ain't going away. So as long as Heritage Canada exists in its current form at least.