Webnames.ca StaffI loved you milkandcookies.com. Then I couldn’t access some of your content because I was Canadian.
Pandora.com was a great music database until it also became deeply, deeply miffed that I was Canadian.
Hulu.com and HBO.com don’t want me to watch any interesting television in case my polite Canadianism turns cynical and sarcastic.
Now Skype has turned its back on us? Canadian iPhone users found out recently that Skype will not work on their phones because of some legal mumbo jumbo (CRTC? Patents? Aliens?).
Canadians are sick and tired of geo-blocking and we’re not going to take it anymore!
Live in Finland and want to watch Being Erica online – too bad, you can’t. We’ve blocked you. Love Heartland but live in Australia – Hah! – we’re denying you the right to see fabulous horsey dramas.
Take that rest of the world! We’ve got the CBC online and you don’t.
unfortunately it is a royalty, advertising, licensing issue with a lot of those services. It is too bad, because if they could get their act together, realize they can own as many ad networks as they want, and sell some advertising in Canada, everyone could benefit…