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Re:Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Nego... by ninth_ant on Friday February 01, 2019 @06:46PM (#19059889)
> Why would a Canadian politician care about this? You don't buy Canadian distribution rights from Canada or from any Canadian entity. You buy them from the copyright holder.

Because the Canadian company paid for exclusive access to that content within Canada for the purpose of making profit. This generates tax revenue and employment and increases the value fo the company for the shareholders, things politicians care about to various degrees.

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Re:Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Nego... by sjwright on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:31PM (#19060125)
1. Company buys something that doesn’t exist.

2. Company lobbies government to demand that their something must be made to exist.

Genius.

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Re:Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Nego... by wonthegame on Friday February 01, 2019 @09:59PM (#19060735)
Many times the content is never made available to Canadians! It’s quite frustrating because we want to their content but there is no legal way.
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Re:Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Nego... by deogeo on Saturday February 02, 2019 @09:54AM (#19063248)
There's an upside to that, as buying that content would finance more of this kind of anti-consumer lobbying.
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