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  • Shaw’s Movie Club

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    First rule of  movie club… backpedal.

    Earlier today the mainstream media jumped on Shaw’s new Netflix competitor “Movie Club“, a service that would allow you to stream movies without running up your bandwidth meter.

    I wrote a blogpost that echoed what quickly became the resounding verdict of the internet, Movie Club was anti-net neutrality and therefore, anti-competitive.

    Shortly after I wrote that post, Shaw posted a series of tweets and an official “clarification” on Facebook.

    Shaw Movie Club is intended to be watched through your set-top box…watching movies on your set-top box won’t affect your included Internet data. However, you can also stream your Movie Club movies online to your computer – this WILL contribute to your Internet data.

    While I’m glad they’re not breaking net neutrality, this position is even more damning. Bandwidth is bandwidth, regardless of whether it’s being sent to your cable box, or your cable modem. If Shaw can afford to send the data to your cable box for free $12/mo, then they can afford to send the data to your cable modem, there’s no difference… and so the UBB argument unravels further.

  • Shame on Shaw

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    The new service, dubbed Movie Club, will cost $12 per month and will allow Shaw customers to watch movies and television shows on their TV and their computers over an Internet connection. However, Shaw said that movies streamed using its own service will not count against a subscriber’s monthly Internet data caps, unlike movies streamed from competing outlets like Netflix…

    “There should be some advantage to you being a customer,” Shaw Communications president Peter Bissonnette told the Calgary Herald on Thursday.

    And so begins the slow death of net neutrality in Canada.

    [via CBC News]

  • How To: Tumblr Style Google+ Redirect

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    Tumblr just added a feature to redirect http://yourdomain.com/+ to your google plus account.

    Neat idea.
    You can do it yourself in .htaccess. Just add:
    Redirect 301 /+ {insert your profile url here}

    Check it: ohryan.ca/+

    Thanks to Isaac Lewis