> One media market that never caved to idiotic lawyering (w.r.t US vs. Canada issues anyway) is video games. Maybe because a reasonable chunk of the game indus

> One media market that never caved to idiotic lawyering (w.r.t US vs. Canada issues anyway) is video games. Maybe because a reasonable chunk of the game industry is in Canada, and an even more reasonable chunk is outside North America all together (so that releasing in Canada as well as US isn't that big of a hassle as the hassle of going international from domestic). Compare to entertainment (Hulu), where Canadians tend to import a vast (and to some disturbing) majority of the "culture" from the United States. Entertainment is much, much more centralized, and it's centralized in the US. Which is why Canada has Canadian content regulations (does Hulu have to abide by those? and if so, how do you define 'airtime' when it's on-demand? and a million other questions I have no idea about), and indirectly why nothing is ever available in Quebec (overall the asinine Quebecois laws are there because that's the price Quebec is willing to pay to maintain its own cultural and political identity). For small countries, there is therefore a certain plus side to partially giving up sovereignity to join an effective economic superstate like the EU. Cross-border penetration of cool gadgets is just one part of this. Sadly, the only economic superstate bordering Canada is the United States which Canadians are, let's say.. ambivalent about joining.