[*] CRTC and "new media"

[Tom Poe]

Sean Walberg wrote:
> Anyone following the recent CRTC announcements about new media 
> (broadcast over Internet?)
>
> http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/NEWS/RELEASES/2008/r080515.htm
>
> Some interesting discussion over at 
> http://newmedia.crtc.econsultation.ca/topics/show/2
>
> Still trying to sift through the documents to really find out what the 
> CRTC is after.  Would they be so stupid to think they can regulate 
> "the Internet"? Reading the comments, one would think so. Reading the 
> text of the CRTC's statements, though, seems it's limited to so called 
> "professionally produced" Canadian content.
>
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>
> Sean
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Theatres of the future (tomorrow, if not later today), combine a 
computer or two, virtual worlds (think Sun's Wonderland project), 
asterisk, and local broadband infrastructure without Internet access.  
Viewers sign in, and attend performances, videoconferences, seminars, 
rehearsals, concerts, etc.  Sessions are recorded, archived, and 
distributed across the Internet to worldwide audiences and other local 
broadband infrastructures.  The same files in different formats, 
spliced, diced, and remixed ad infinitum.

So, what exactly is the CRTC's thinking?  That they step in as a 
gatekeeper of some kind?  The sooner groups get going and create demos, 
and let the world see what the corporate thugs don't want the world to 
see, the sooner these sorts of power plays cease, maybe?
Tom