Canadian Regulator Says No To New Internet Regs 76
An anonymous reader writes "After months of fears that the Canadian broadcast regulator would try
to regulate the Internet, the CRTC has come to its senses. Its new media
decision today takes a hands off approach — no new regulation — and
even adopts a rule against undue preferences for wireless providers."
No regulation? (Score:5, Interesting)
However, no regulation still means NO regulation which isn't a bad thing. And I do have the ability to switch service providers as a consumer and inquire about throttling before I move.
Canada and Mexico should agree on regs (Score:5, Interesting)
I think Canada and Mexico should agree on the new regulations and then force the US to comply with them under NAFTA.
And restore copyright to the original 17 years with renewals until the literal person (not corporation) dies and no renewals after that.
Canada has twice the bandwidth at half the price we suckers in the USA pay for.
Re:Canada and Mexico should agree on regs (Score:2, Interesting)
p>Canada has twice the bandwidth at half the price we suckers in the USA pay for.
I've spotted a crazyperson!... The USA is the land of the $50 (or less, i mean, cogent's $4) megabit/sec. Up here, I pay $142/megabit, without any bandwidth factored In. I spend nearly 2 grand a month on a 10 meg line, with 250gigs of transfer. I'm trying to make a small DC up in BC, and it's brutal, there's no way we can even dream of competing with US prices, not because of the dollar factor, but just because you guys get data for so rediculously cheep. And then there's cellphones! You guys can get unlimited phone/data lines, for less than a hundred a month, we get 4 gigs of data and 200 minutes for $85 a month. No unlimited anything.
DMCA != Stringent copyright law (Score:1, Interesting)
There is no Fair Use for example in the UK. "Fair Dealing" isn't as extensive. Ergo, the UK law WITHOUT a DMCA law enacted was more strict than the US.