To be fair that quote doesn't really hold true when someone is posting what they do in the bedroom online :P. Though this isn't a criminal thing anyway.

I'm almost convinced Trudeau did the weed in the beginning for similar reasons. Though I support what Doug is doing here, and what Trudeau did regarding weed, I do like to entertain the conspiracy theory thinking too. The less sober society is the easier it is to make bad policy decisions without as much pushback :D

Personally I like that metric. It would almost be nice to have both an "active users" as well as a view/visit count. It's nice knowing how much actual activity a community is getting. It's something that sometimes feels missing from reddit.

Yeah, if fines work like a "cost of doing business" that they just account for on their budget sheets then it's really just pointless. It's also hilarious when I see a government fine a company for doing something wrong, but the customers that got screwed over get none of the money AND the fine amount is not as much as the profit they gained off doing the action. It's like a double "fuck you" to the customer who got screwed over.

Yeah I've got a person I know that runs a small iptv service. Mainly used for live things like sports. I more got it setup for my parents place because it's just easier for them to use that then to try to use things like reddit to find streams of each sporting game they want to watch.

It can also be good for when you just want to put something random on in the background. I personally barely use it as I don't really watch sports and I hate watching ads. So for my content it mostly comes from sonarr/radarr.

Or even better the megathread linked on there for direct info: https://rentry.co/megathread

Got that IPTV and Sonarr/Radarr setup already cooking ;)

Well a lot of the media across Canada is owned by Bell, Rogers, or Shaw. With their current CRTC "connections" and lobbying I'd say they have a lot of power to get their way on these deals. I wouldn't be surprised hearing the CBC not as in favour since they don't need to rely on these sorts of funding sources that these other corporations may be hoping to secure.

Wouldn't Facebook having to pay news agencies for clicks to their articles result in the problem of low quality clickbait style articles/headlines worse? I get the point you're trying to make, but I think the way the government is going about things is a bit silly and doesn't seem apt to make things better. To me it seems like the government fell prey to the lobbying efforts of Bell/Rogers/Telus trying to squeeze more $$$.

I use Coextro. Just some small company operating out of Mississauga. I wouldn't call them amazing, but they try their best. At the end of the day they are really still at the mercy of Bell or Rogers (depending on if you go dsl or cable). They are smaller so they are likely a bit safer for now from being consumed by the duopoly.

It's sad when I could likely get faster and more reliable internet connected to a satellite than over cables hooked directly to my house. You'd think living in a more major city in a sprawling suburban residential area would get you reasonably reliable internet, but not even that is the case. Is it too much to ask CRTC to allow some competition?!?!

It sucks because my community is still stuck on 100Mbps per second as the max over DSL unless we get cable internet. We have been back and forth between both DSL and cable and find we have issues on both regardless of the provider, router, or modem. At this point I feel like the lines to our neighbourhood/house are just so old and flakey and struggle to handle peak internet usage times. It just feels ridiculous though because there is fibre lines at the end of the street as those lines provide fibre access to the new communities.

These companies have no incentive to upgrade/maintain things beyond their initial installations because they control the market. Third party providers can only do so much when things don't work. All they can do is essentially put in a ticket with Bell or Rogers and tell them to fix it. And Bell or Rogers uses their contracted workers to say "yeah looks fine to me" and calls it a day.

I'm getting quite sick of the CRTC not doing anything and not stepping in as much as they should be. I also don't like that I see things like the Bell chairman in private undisclosed meetings with the CRTC. Overall it just seems like corruption runs deep. I guess I'm not really surprised anymore.