Clearly fearing for their wallets a growing number of artistic and industrial groups in Canada would like the Internet to be regulated as radio and TV, and Canadian content to be "prioritized" (
c.f. Michael Geist). With a quarter of a million pages viewed per month, however, Casey McKinnon and Rudy Jahchan from the
Galacticast weekly parody video show do not really agree. In fact, they devoted a very serious presentation at the latest
BarCampMontreal to disqualify the idea of enforcing "CanCon" (
Canadian Content) regulations on the Internet. In the interview they also explained their feelings as new media artists regarding the traditional media industry.
Who said there's a cultural divide out there?
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