Please, maple syrup can only improve alot of content.

Well, not release it into Canada, no. You'd just get maple syrup all over it.

what bothers me most about Canadian rights is that, oftentimes, the rights holders for certain content don't even seem to have any interest in releasing it

It'd be mostly the same even in a world with global copyright law, since even the shortest terms are very long.

You got me, I just want to watch cartoons without having to pirate them for once.

Also, how would copyright law standardization be enforced? I doubt any country's governments would be eager to start trade sanctions over it.

Even if the laws were standardized, none of the shows discussed earlier would be in public domain.

We have a global medium in which access is classified as a human right: why are we still implementing regional standards to something that completely defies borders.

Which is another problem: no standardization of rules and requirements.

But they're not public domain...? It's usually something like author's life + several decades to become public domain.

Which is my problem: why are they still upholding broadcast restrictions for an entirely different medium on 30 year old and older content that's fallen into public domain?

There are a lot of titles that the distribution rights are a little wonky for in Canada, particularly from certain studios, like Lionsgate

Unfortunately the little guys probably don't have much choice but to do what the big guys tell them to do

Tubi is pretty awesome in Canada too, but you guys keep popping up with titles we just arbitrarily don't get cause... Canada. Even though it's entirely on the internet.

Don’t get me wrong, TM2-Megatron, there’s plenty of that too. Full Moon Pictures has a good chunk of their library on there along with Shout Factory

Tubi is pretty awesome actually. Has a lot of old Hasbro Shows. Has Kamen Rider 71 and Kuuga, has a bunch of Sentai... at least in the US.

they arent all that bad. theyve got old mst3k and lots of 80s cartoons. last i checked anyway. had gi joe, vehicle voltron, cops, some transformers i think and subbed original captain harlock even

I've seen the icon on my Roku; always assumed it was just a slightly "classier" version of those bottom-of-the-barrel trash free streaming services that offer VHS transfers of the very worst the 70s and 80s had to offer

isn't tubitv one of those free services?

And I agree with you in principal, but tubi is neither canadian (or is it? *checks* nope.) nor an internet service provider. Don't get me wrong: rogers, telus, bell, et al. are all part of the problem, but not my current or specific problem.

I wasn't talking about Bell or Rogers as ISPs, but as media providers. Sadly, the same companies that sell us the internet also happen to be broadcasting titans that own the distribution rights for most popular content

While I agree with you in principal: the problem here isn't the internet service providers. Though the onus of fixing it as a systemic problem is probably on them.

then how would honest Canadian companies like Rogers or Bell be able to overcharge you for content, or not even make the content available in your region for varied and unknowable reasons?

It's on the internet, but the internet is being treated like it's regional. It doesn't matter that I'm in canada, It's the internet. Stop enforcing outdated and completely arbitrary broadcast restrictions on the global telecommunication network.

Nope, security is not my concern at all.

I mean, if you're not worried about security and just using it to access geolocked content, there are free vpns.

To watch cartoons on a free streaming program? Might as well write my representative if I have to fix problems other people caused.

Sounds like time for a vpn.

Aaannndddd no earthworm jim in canada. Thanks outdated broadcast standards.

Truly the crossover I never knew I needed in my life.

Dude! Tubi Tv has the Earthworm Jim cartoon! And Chuck Norris and Denver!

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No, he's just old.

I think he might have had a stroke...

Phrasing!

NEED

BEAST GENERAL

I dunno if to call them the worst salesperson ever or the best.

They must not have really wanted to sell you anything.

This just happened to be the first time one ever gave up and walked away immediately after ringing the bell. Like, no patience at all or something.

Covid didn't stop salespeople from coming to my neighborhood. They are still a consistent annoyance.

Random like "Why does god allow terrible things?" or random like "You can see them too?!?"?

And yet, I still have to deal with random idiots on the street asking me random questions.

door to door salesmen (or those offering religion) certainly are one of the things lost to COVID that I've missed the least

They rang the bell and were walking away before I even got to the door mere seconds later.

I just got ding-dong-ditched by a salesperson.