Future of Canadian AMVs in Danger

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Re: Future of Canadian AMVs in Danger

Postby Fall_Child42 » Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:29 am

Moonlight Soldier wrote:Yea. I wanted to write about this but it was pointed out our parent company uhh...one of those corporations Oto is talking about -_-


YOU TOLD ME IT WASN'T LIKE THIS.
YOU SAID MY VIEWS ON MEDIA WERE GROSSLY EXAGGERATED.
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Re: Future of Canadian AMVs in Danger

Postby Otohiko » Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:30 am

Yeah -__-

I am honestly surprised by the reversal of fortunes for Netflix btw. They almost singlehandedly killed the traditional rental market, but now they're actually in quite a bind because of what's been mentioned above. That could also be of consequence to many AMVers. Likewise, this could begin to really damage services like Steam. While I totally support both local video and game retailers, the trouble is that one of the big, big advantages of online services like Netflix or Steam is that they give easy access to a lot of niche content, just as easily as mainstream content. This is increasingly untrue of retailers; over the last few years these have likewise increasingly come under the control of major media corporations, and their product selections have become governed by ease of distributions. Which means that what's on the shelves is generally the mainstream, mass print stuff. Tracking down niche films, music or games is tough without the internet. While killing the traffic limits won't stop online-ordering services, it will certainly put content delivery back - way back - to something like 2001 standards.
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Re: Future of Canadian AMVs in Danger

Postby NME » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:50 pm

The internet killed the rental market. Physical media is a dead business. Kids today are growing up without ever having owned a CD. If Canada wants collective groups of pirates to engage in swap meets to exchange data with each other because they can't download it on their own we will do that. Our populations live in large centralized cities and we have ample public spaces where we could set up ad-hoc networks for an afternoon of sharing. Pirate networks will be formed if the man takes our private access down.

Renting a server and buying hard drives that you fill up with that server's connection in order to ship the drives full back to your house is probably the cheapest way to gain access to things in a quick amount of time under this new system without incurring ridiculous overcharges.

Digital distribution is clearly the future and everyone can see this. A government that passes regulations that could cause my 10 dollar 8 gigabyte steam game to cost me 16 dollars to download has nothing of my best interests in mind. A government that would pass a regulation that may discourage computer users from having automatic updates enabled and regularly installed on their machines clearly gives no fuck. Windows updates aren't small, and videogames keep getting bigger and bigger. We've been allowed to download music all we want because the CRIAA imposed a tariff on all of our blank CDs to supposedly offset the damage of piracy to the music industry (aka record company profiteers stealing money from people who want to back up their baby photos). Now that it's clear that the music industry is not suffering in anything but sales of outdated pieces of plastic there is little reason for us to believe a word of what CTV, Global, Chorus, or the corporate media tells us about this issue. I've seen more lies printed in major national newspapers about this story in the past week that I wonder how often the newspaper lies to me about other stuff.

This will cause more people to pirate and fewer people to buy in Canada, they are basically putting a nail in the coffin of a legitimate internet marketplace in Canada and shooting the next generation of Canadians in the face. This causes more reliance on fossil fuels, more reliance on old technology.

The morons. They'll make Canada a technological laughingstock.
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Re: Future of Canadian AMVs in Danger

Postby Pwolf » Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:11 pm

NME wrote:The morons. They'll make Canada a technological laughingstock.


Well...
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Re: Future of Canadian AMVs in Danger

Postby Moonlight Soldier » Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:02 pm

Pwolf wrote:
NME wrote:The morons. They'll make Canada a technological laughingstock.


Well...

Kicks you.
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Re: Future of Canadian AMVs in Danger

Postby Moonlight Soldier » Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:06 pm

Dr.Dinosaur wrote:
Moonlight Soldier wrote:Yea. I wanted to write about this but it was pointed out our parent company uhh...one of those corporations Oto is talking about -_-


YOU TOLD ME IT WASN'T LIKE THIS.
YOU SAID MY VIEWS ON MEDIA WERE GROSSLY EXAGGERATED.


Oh shut up Todd :P I haven't officially asked yet.
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Re: Future of Canadian AMVs in Danger

Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:07 am

Maybe we can sell our Government and the CRTC to the USA as they seem to want to buy everything anyways :P

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Re: Future of Canadian AMVs in Danger

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:37 pm

Saw this and lol'd - http://i.imgur.com/M3G7f.png
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Re: Future of Canadian AMVs in Danger

Postby dokidoki » Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:09 am

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( someone made it in response to http://i.imgur.com/V3EVf.jpg )
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Re: Future of Canadian AMVs in Danger

Postby godix » Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:08 am

I predict a lot of Canadians will be learning how to connect to unsecured wifi spots in the near future.
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Re: Future of Canadian AMVs in Danger

Postby dokidoki » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:32 pm

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