Net Neutrality help me ask the question

Federico Contreras the_blur_oc at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 2 16:56:16 UTC 2008


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> What pissed me off was how our public national broadcasting service 
> denied access to watch our own national leaders' debate to many by 
> streaming in a non-free container and codec format. The CBC has argued 
> that the non-free format they use for video is in everyone's best 
> interest. Apparently holding its viewers hostage to software vendors of 
> non-free data formats is in everyone's interest. This is an issue I 
> would have liked to have seen presented on the debates, the utility, if 
> any, of non-free(dom) technology used in the publicly funded 
> institutions.

What format did they use?

I wasn't able to stream it either as i was on my eeepc.





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