Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

Re:Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you ca... by gojomo on Sunday April 03, 2011 @10:01PM (#2404970)

Certainly such a service could be even cheaper with official sponsorship and universal coverage.

Perhaps Canadians can lobby their MPs to institute a national system providing every Canadian with a United States IP address. The Single-Payer-Proxy-System – or in French, Proxy Système à Payeur Unique (SPPS-PSPU). There's really no reason for the nation to stand for this sort of Canadophobic discrimination. Indeed, where are the national and provincial Human Rights Commissions on this important issue?

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you ca... by enjo on Sunday April 03, 2011 @10:34PM (#2405063)

I'd have to imagine that'd violate some sort of treaty. That's a huge part of the issues. These sort of regional restrictions are all wrapped up in a mess of various treaties and international agreements that Canada could not easily extricate themselves from.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you ca... by redthrowaway on Sunday April 03, 2011 @11:15PM (#2405186)

The problem isn't treaties, but distribution rights. US firms don't distribute content in Canada, but have Canadian subsidiaries or partners which do so. This means agreements between service providers and rights owners signed in the states aren't generally valid in Canada.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you ca... by mynegation on Sunday April 03, 2011 @11:02PM (#2405145)

I am Canadian myself and suspect that gp is just sarcastic.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you ca... by stretchwithme on Sunday April 03, 2011 @10:16PM (#2405018)

Maybe it would be better to discover and address the reasons why these services are unavailable.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you ca... by jarek on Sunday April 03, 2011 @10:47PM (#2405098)

Yeah. The market is too small - let's get procreatin', Canadians.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you ca... by stretchwithme on Sunday April 03, 2011 @11:09PM (#2405163)

Well, the market for rhode island is small too. but the barriers for treating it the same as connecticut are nil. Its those barriers that are the problem, even if its just the costs of being in a different country.

I'm not sure what those are or whether nafta was supposed to reduce them or what. Maybe its simply regulatory. Maybe everything has to be duplicated. Maybe Canadian companies like it the way it is.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you ca... by jarek on Monday April 04, 2011 @08:06AM (#2406149)

I'd rather keep some of the barriers - the one about having no RIAA, for a start - hence my comment about increasing market size to make it more worthwhile to scale them.

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