Speaking as a Canadian... (Score 1)

...a poor, student Canadian who can barely afford the neccesities of life (tuition, rent, food, transit pass, cable modem), I LOVE this. I can't afford my net access AND TV, so of course I get net. As near as I can guess, the Canadian government WON'T try to barge into this, and may actually support iCrave if they start getting hammered by legal problems.

The Canadian gov't, you see, has recently begun efforts to make Canada more high-tech, and iCrave is a very firm response to these efforts. Since our legal system has so much power, and since most of our judges favour the current government and its stances, there's a good chance that, even if iCrave does get sued, it'll survive.

Hopefully, this will start a trend, or rather reverse the current one; Canada's been bleeding technology companies for a few years now, and the ones that remain are looking at nicer tax regimes (i.e. Nortel, interviewed in National Post as saying that Canadian taxes are driving them out).

I would wager that iCrave, if they play their cards right, will survive and thrive. I hope so, mainly for my sake. I've been missing my Air Farce and This Hour for far too long now, and I don't want to have to give them up again.