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Adding to this, region restrictions on video content. There are TV shows which are made in Canada, and unavailable on amazon prime in Canada, yet are available
by kennend3 3y ago
Adding to this, region restrictions on video content.
There are TV shows which are made in Canada, and unavailable on amazon prime in Canada, yet are available on amazon prime in the US?
In Canada, amazon prime tries to push me to getting yet another subscription?
There are also shows Amazon prime owns and refuses to broadcast in Canada? You might be able to say that prime doesnt have redist rights on some shows, but their own "prime originals"?
After fragmenting the market like this, what did they expect people would do?
- Spoom 3y agoIn my experience, usually Prime content is on Crave in Canada. But a whole lot of Canada just has a pirate Kodi box anyway.
- jdougan 3y agoTo be fair, that is probably partially fallout from the Canadian content regulations and possibly other law regarding corporate ownership. Not sure because it has been over two decades since I was current in that stuff.
- transcriptase 3y agoThey actually just passed a new law last week to legislate even more CanCon meddling on online streaming sites, including YouTube and social media feeds. Canada subsidizes an entertainment industry that mainly produces things nobody wants to watch, so they're regulating companies to algorithmically force it on Canadians. The amazing shows and movies that have come out of Canada in the last 20 years are popular because they're good... not because of some visibility issue with the rest of the fodder from companies that spend more on admin related to lucrative tax breaks and grants than they do actually producing content.
- jdougan 3y agoMy impression back then was that the TV cancon rules were a disaster, and the music ones may have helped more than hurt, after the first 10 years or so.