Originally Posted by Shareholder
Instead you would turn over those property rights to the Canadian market to American companies, who then would use their market power to extract those rights for far less than a free Canadian market would provide to the owner and seller of those rights.
No, in my case I would be fine with ExpressVu and Starchoice having the exact same channel lineup and programming as DISH and DirecTV plus the Canadian channels people want, not the ridiculous knockoffs and rerun channels that we have. If the channel is labelled "HBO Canada", and owned in Canada, so be it. But give us the freedom to watch the same stuff, at the same time (and don't cut off the "scenes from next week" at the end of each show for another Robson Arms commercial, either).
Just figure out a way to make it so.
Again, what are they going to do once the US channels follow the BBC's lead and allow you to download shows for a fee? Block
www.nbc.com ?
So why, Parnel and Simon and others, are you arguing for the expropriation of these vital property rights and thus denying a foreign entrepreneur from making a legitimate return on his investment from the Canadian market? How can you call yourself capitalists, conservatives and free marketers yet insist this be done so you can watch Ricky Gervais’ new sitcom a few months earlier?
Did I ever label myself a conservative? I don't recall having done so.
I just want my TV, and I want it now. And I don't see why rights or no rights, things can't be lined up such that we have the same TV experience as our southern neighbours. The technology is there. The number of people with said dishes states that the audience is too.
Simon