Earlier this year, Canada’s broadcast regulator launched a consultation into the policy implications of increasingly popular Internet-based video services such as Netflix.
The consultation was the CRTC’s response to broadcasters and cultural groups that formed the Online Broadcasting Working Group to urge it to step up to the regulatory plate.
While many feared the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission would jump at the chance for new Internet regulation, last week it surprised observers by rightly concluding that its consultation generated plenty of rhetoric about the dangers of an unregulated, over-the-top video services market, but no evidence of real harm.
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