Hey – Alex Boutilier of the Toronto Star has another “DEFANGING BIG TECH” op-ed today. He tells us that Bill C-10 will change part of the mandate of the CRTC so they can now charge streaming services like Netflix to fund Canadian Content. Yup – $1.5 Billion does down the drain for CBC programming that maybe dozens of people watch and another $660 Million to hire a bunch of kids to write articles in papers like TheRecord that no one reads and now they want to raise $830 Million from Netflix to fund crap CanCon that nobody will ever bother to stream. Nice. And this reminds me. Just saw an article on how to get (great) U.S. Netflix and other streaming services here in Canada. A bit technical since you have to buy a U.S. DNS subscription and have a U.S. credit card (which I have two…). So, bring it on…
