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CRTC Mulls Canadian Content On the Internet 269

PsiCTO writes "The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is going to weigh Internet content regulation — this could mean requiring some amount of Canadian content coming across Canadian pipes. The CRTC is akin to the FCC. They get that they can't 'regulate' the Internet, but are proposing to promote additional Canadian content in some way, as is currently done with radio and TV content. Likely they will discuss tax credits, subsidies, grants, or other traditional mechanisms. What do people think about this? Are there similar efforts, existing or proposed, in other countries?"

Comment Re:Anyone but me think this is a great strategy? (Score 1) 384

Sadly, the game publisher have some ground in regards to piracy. It's probably impossible to determine an actual number, but with patented guess-timations, I would be surprised if there wasn't at least 1 pirated copy in use for each copy sold.

Most people that I know who pirate games use the same old arguments "I just want to try it out" or "I don't want to pay for this, it's not worth my money". This angers me greatly.

Like everything else in life, PC game pirates exists because there is a demande for them. Modern DRM appeared in response to that.

It's sad really, but your idea is crazy enough that it might be true - game publisher trying to push people towards consoles, where piracy is very low due to the technical knowledge needed to do it.

Either way, people disapoint me. I like my PC and I like my PC games, but I fear we'll be driven underground soon enough by the masses of idiots who don't understand that not paying for something is the very deffinition of stealing.

As a side note, I'm up to about 20 hours in GTA4 on the PC and I haven't had a single crash, hang up, or problem.

(sorry for the spelling)

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