Changing the law takes a fair amount of time, and it would unlikely be retroactive. Not to mention that if everyone is doing it (and it doesn't go against the C

Changing the law takes a fair amount of time, and it would unlikely be retroactive. Not to mention that if everyone is doing it (and it doesn't go against the Charter), good luck legislating against it. Historically, predatory behaviour by media companies in Canada has been pretty badly received by both major parties, which is how we ended up with notice-and-notice, where the emails have a long intro about "this is just a notice and you don't have to do anything". I don't encourage piracy, but it's probably the kind of thing that most people do occasionally, while also being 'good' paying consumers. p.s. oddly enough, I get these emails sometimes from Teksavvy, but not from Bell.