Bell president: "Canadians are STEALING by using US Netflix!"
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Bell president: "Canadians are STEALING by using US Netflix!"
http://www.thestar.com/business/tech...tent-bell.html
This is all in an attempt to get more people to subscribe to their terrible Crave service, which contains content that Bell actively keeps OFF of Netflix Canada.
Curious how other Canadians here react to Bell's statements...
With an estimated one third of Netflix Canada customers accessing content meant for U.S. subscribers, she said “we need to personalize the fact that content is produced by real people, and that stealing it affects their livelihoods.”
Curious how other Canadians here react to Bell's statements...
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"Stupid fuckin hosers." is my guess
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I like how the twit bragged about catching her daughter using a VPN and she made her stop,ahhh yeah sure she did, wait till the daughter decides to get back at my mom and ends up dancing with a pole to Motley Crue.
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Do people actually punish their parents that way? I always thought that was a dumb sitcom joke. Becoming a stripper because you can't use a VPN sounds a little extreme, lol.
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Not exactly, but that kind of overbearing, "What you're doing is WRONG and you're a bad person for it." over such a stupid trivial thing like VPN (I use a DNS rerouting service, as it's faster, personally), is the kind of thing that makes kids think, "WTF mom. You don't know me."
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I don't understand the issue. Are one third of Canadians pirating Netflix for free? Are they using legal subscriptions to view movies that for some reason aren't available in Canada?
If it's the second case, it sounds a lot like complaining about Canadians using google.com instead of google.ca for searches.
If it's the second case, it sounds a lot like complaining about Canadians using google.com instead of google.ca for searches.
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Re: Bell president: "Canadians are STEALING by using US Netflix!"
^ Yeah, it's more of the second. Basically...
1. We sign up for Netflix, just like anyone else.
2. We use a service (VPN or DNS) to alter our location. Most people stick with US, as that's the "best" catalog, but I've switched around to all sorts of regions for different content (UK is pretty good).
3. Canadian media conglomerates think that means we're stealing.
The extra $5/month I pay for being able to switch Netflix regions is fantastic. I recommend it, even for US users.
For what it's worth Canadian Netflix isn't terrible, it's just a very different catalog. In some ways, dare I say, it's actually better, but it's up to the user to decide.
Either way, Netflix is getting paid, so they don't give a shit. Bell (and the other Canadian media companies) have adopted a strategy of running their own streaming services with the content that they would otherwise have on Netflix. SHOMI_ and CraveTV are terrible, and they know it.
This is a problem in Canada because the same companies (Rogers, Shaw, Bell, Telus) own both the data infrastructure AND the content, including the vast majority of US-made content. As far as I understand, in America, the ISP is not the same company that owns the shows/broadcasts. Here... they do.
1. We sign up for Netflix, just like anyone else.
2. We use a service (VPN or DNS) to alter our location. Most people stick with US, as that's the "best" catalog, but I've switched around to all sorts of regions for different content (UK is pretty good).
3. Canadian media conglomerates think that means we're stealing.
The extra $5/month I pay for being able to switch Netflix regions is fantastic. I recommend it, even for US users.
For what it's worth Canadian Netflix isn't terrible, it's just a very different catalog. In some ways, dare I say, it's actually better, but it's up to the user to decide.
Either way, Netflix is getting paid, so they don't give a shit. Bell (and the other Canadian media companies) have adopted a strategy of running their own streaming services with the content that they would otherwise have on Netflix. SHOMI_ and CraveTV are terrible, and they know it.
This is a problem in Canada because the same companies (Rogers, Shaw, Bell, Telus) own both the data infrastructure AND the content, including the vast majority of US-made content. As far as I understand, in America, the ISP is not the same company that owns the shows/broadcasts. Here... they do.
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This is a problem in Canada because the same companies (Rogers, Shaw, Bell, Telus) own both the data infrastructure AND the content, including the vast majority of US-made content. As far as I understand, in America, the ISP is not the same company that owns the shows/broadcasts. Here... they do.
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The major exception is Comcast.