I'd love to think that software innovations would trickle down into larger markets, across borders, and into lower brackets of economic prosperity, but things like this just really frustrate me.
Canada is often treated like shit in terms of access to marketplaces and entertainment services online, and it needs to stop soon. USA, we are your closest partner, and we want to integrate with you to create and consume together. Our television and our theaters are full of american content, but our web is so fragmented in that respect. The content we can access on the tube is often blocked online.
Is there any chance that Canada is also responsible in this? I ask because of the very strict CRTC regulations which dictate how much foreign content can be served to Canadians.
msbarnett got it -- the CRTC has nothing to do with this, and instead it is the regional rights holders. Most US television shows, for instance, are licensed to Canadian broadcasters. Most movie play rights sold to Astral Media (the Movie Channel). Etc. Even where it's a simple subsidiary of a US media company, it still leads to Canada getting screwed.
We're in the situation of being a big enough, lucrative enough market that they want to maximize revenues here, yet paradoxically we're small enough that they're usually in no rush to do so.
I'd love to think that software innovations would trickle down into larger markets, across borders, and into lower brackets of economic prosperity, but things like this just really frustrate me.
Canada is often treated like shit in terms of access to marketplaces and entertainment services online, and it needs to stop soon. USA, we are your closest partner, and we want to integrate with you to create and consume together. Our television and our theaters are full of american content, but our web is so fragmented in that respect. The content we can access on the tube is often blocked online.
What is it going to take to break these barriers?