Comments on another CRTC draft submission

[Walter Dnes]

  There is currently a break in the CRTC hearings on regulating "new
media".  90% of the submissions want an internet tax of 3% to fund
"Kanadian Kulture".  And SAC (Songwriters Association of Canada) wants
a $5/month piracy tax on top of that.  The notice and scope of the
hearings are in the two announcements at...

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2008/n2008-11.htm
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2008/n2008-11-1.htm

  The written comments are at...
http://support.crtc.gc.ca/applicant/applicant.aspx?pn_ph_no=2008-11&lang=E

  Text transcripts of the oral presentation are at...
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/transcripts/2009/index.htm#tb0217 in the first
batch (Volumes 1..7).  Some of the presentations are in French.  I had a
second browser window open to Google translator to help me out with
that.  One warning, if you're on high-blood-pressure-medication, take it
before reading the transcripts.  They're sickening/infuriating.

  The hearings resume Monday March 9, and the transcripts are usually up
by noon the following business day.  The deadline for final replies is
2009/03/27.  I'll wait until after the hearings finish to submit my
reply, in case anything new and major comes up, and I want to change my
brief.  In the meantime, here's what I've got written up so far,
Comments appreciated, and if you "fined a knee type owes", plese let me
know.  I've temporarily put it up in my webspace at
http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/crtc.txt There's no webpage per
se, but the direct link works.

  A couple of notes about references you'll see in the transcripts and
in my draft brief...
  - "The Commission" refers to the CRTC in this context
  - "Peter Grant" refers to a guy by that name, who proposed a tax on
    internet accounts, based on a study by Ellacoya Networks.  I use
    a Bell submission from the throttling hearings to try to rebut
    the study ("The enemy of my enemy", etc)

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
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