Sentences with phrase «canadian isps»

Meanwhile two Canadian ISPs, Teksavvy and Rogers, have recently disclosed to the public the number of requests for subscriber information that they have received from law enforcement authorities.

Are Canadian ISPs required to identify their users (ie, obtain their legal names and verify that the names are correct), or can internet access be obtained, legally, without providing any real identity information?

To begin with, the type of monitoring envisioned in SABAM is more intrusive than that currently carried out by Canadian ISPs.

CNN called the 900 % markup of movie theater popcorn America's Biggest Rip - off; at 3,900 % markups, there's little doubt Canadian ISPs are guilty of pulling off Canada's biggest rip - off.

In the copyright infringement context, many Canadian ISPs participate in a «notice and notice» system whereby they forward notices to subscribers that copyright owners allege have engaged in infringement.

At the heart of the matter for Netflix is «usage - based billing,» or limiting the amount subscribers can download per month, a practice some Canadian ISPs put into place at roughly the same time that Netflix was preparing its move into the Canadian market.

All major Canadian ISPs now employ usage - based billing.

But the company is clearly on the warpath against the practices of Canadian ISPs.

Yet, with large Canadian ISPs / broadcasters increasingly exempting their own content from usage caps, that's debatable.

The recently released game Sleeping Dogs took me about 20 hours to finish, so that's roughly 60 GB, or close to what most big Canadian ISPs give customers per month.

Not exact matches

Bill Sandiford, president of the Canadian Network Operators Consortium — an affiliation of 37 smaller ISPs — says a number of new TV providers will sprout up as a result.

The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, which has acted as a voice on the Quebec legislation for both wireless carriers and ISPs, said in June it was still considering whether to mount a legal challenge.

The Canadian Music industry is asking the government to implement copyright reforms that include new levies on smartphones, ISP content blocking (and reporting back to music biz) and the ability to renegotiate existing deals it deems unfair.

Copyright extension and ISP liability are controversial issues in Canada, and there has been extensive criticism of the way that other agreements, most notably the TPP, have established stricter standards than established Canadian law.

A lot of ink has been spilled lately over reports that Canadian content owners and broadcasters, led by Bell Media but including other content players such as Cineplex and broadcaster / ISPs (Rogers, Shaw), are finally proposing a solution to the problem of rogue offshore websites streaming pirated content to Canadian audiences.

A ruling from the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Canada's equivalent of the FCC, on October 28th removed the ability of independent ISPs to offer unlimited internet service for a set monthly fee in favour of a the UBB push is designed to offset revenue lost because of people who are cancelling their cable to stream TV online.

The Canadian Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) asserts that U.S. copyright fines and penalties do not apply in Canada and there are no obligations on the subscriber to contact the copyright owner or the ISP.

The crux of the story is that Canadians are being denied access to certain aspects of the Internet with ISPs Bell and Rogers making the decisions as to which parts are denied, including access to peer - to - peer downloads of CBC TV episodes to which Canadian taxpayers are legally entitled.

Where we as Canadian consumers are getting ripped is in the markup the ISPs are imposing on this bandwidth.

In Canada the right to pursue a defamation claim against an ISP without disclosing identity is pending before the Supreme Court in the Bragg Communications case, but Canadian victims seeking to pursue the individuals responsible for internet defamation should have a good look at the UK Brookes decision.

Bell, Aliant, Rogers, Shaw and other Canadian online service providers and ISPs should provide this same information for their operations.

Rogers surprised many yesterday by becoming the first major Canadian telecom provider to release a transparency report (TekSavvy, a leading independent ISP beat them by a few hours in issuing a very detailed report on its policies and activities).

We were the first Canadian telecommunications company to issue a «transparency report», and have been twice ranked as Canada's most pro-privacy ISP».