However, since we Canadians get such a huge amount of our media from the US
a fact about which Canadians and other non-Americans never seem to tire of complaining, until the day they discover that the e-spigot has been shut-off for them, then it's whambulance time: "Where are my American TV shows and movies!"
Can you explain that differently? I've read your comment a few times and haven't been able to grasp it.
My comment, based on a possibly faulty interpretation of your comment:
I don't feel entitled to get US media as a Canadian. It's just extremely prevalent. Our country watches CSI at the same time yours does, and American Idol, and pretty much everything else. So we get used to feeling like members of the US media market. Sure we have our Rick Mercer Report, et al, but the dominant media is American.
I certainly didn't mean to complain. I understand that negotiating distributions rights for a country a tenth the size isn't high on the priority list of US distributors. What I was trying to say is that it catches us of guard (though less and less frequently) to find that for online services we are often excluded when for so much of our daily media lives we are full-fledged, practicing Americans.
Having moved here from the UK I think Canada is worse off than the UK on balance.
The UK doesn't have Pandora but it does have Spotify, and Canada has neither. Last.fm is gimped in Canada, compared to the service in the UK. Lovefilm in the UK has a wider selection for online streaming than Netflix does in Canada. As pointed out, you can't buy the Kindle natively in Canada (you have to import it from Amazon.com) but you can in the UK.
Probably not, but in this case I imagine it was scratching a personal itch and no other country in the world starts with "can" - I imagine that bit really rubs it in the face of Canadians. I'm sure other copycats will emerge as people think up amusing domain options.
No, it's probably not because our country starts with "can"
The real itch is that some of these services are available as long as I drive an hour south and get past the border and find open wi-fi.
Pretend you're an avid soccer fan. It's as if the world cup was on TV, and your friends are all crowding around it. All you get is the commentary and cheering when the ball is scored, but you can't actually see the game, since they're blocking the TV.
And then when your friends ask you "Wasn't that a great game?", and all you can say is "Uhh...I think so?"
