And thanks to Guinevere for posting the link to the site.

I have just spent the last few hours trying to spread the word out. We as a whole community needs to support this, Canadian or not.

This could be just the start of the revolution we’ve been looking for.

http://pluking.blogspot.com/

Its boring because its content is neither fluff nor eye candy, but rather professional journalism, and it puts every other major news outlet (Global, which only talks about how many people got shot in Toronto today, CTV, which only talks about how the kids at St. Mary’s highschool put on a great science fair vs. CBC, which traverses the latest famine in North Korea, the genocide currently happening in Kenya, the brutal crackdown on protesting Tibetian monks, the latest violation of NAFTA by the states, and the results of the parliamentary elections in Germany).

Honest to God, I love fluff – B5, Futurama, Alias, House – great work, really fun to watch, really pleasant and enjoyable – but a completely different animal!
[quote comment="314596"]BTW as a few previous commentors have noted, the CBC is a TOTAL PROPAGANDA OUTLET run by media-whores that would make Fox-news jealous.
One thing you’ll never hear them talk about is the brutal regime running China and harvesting organs of dissenters. In fact, they’ve been caught actively censoring these uncomfortable truths.[/quote]
I don’t know, I haven’t watched for a while, but when I do, they consistently report the news fairly, accurately, and with a minimum of censorship; bear in mind, while they report the news, they don’t go out of their way to pull the tiger’s tail!

I can see this as a great way for the beginning of legal torrents, because its hazy whether providing entertainment to Canadian citizens should be part of the CBC’s mission, providing impartial news/docs/etc + citizen-centric material like “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister” is definitely within the realm of CBC’s “duty” to the taxpayers, and therefore the use of low-cost transmission methods IS fully justified end-to-end, rightful-creation to rightful-distribution; moral and legal from a->zed:)

Nah, it just changes it to “all torrents SHOULD be illegal”.

Sure. But the total costs remain the same or go up. The difference will be paid by our internet connections. That’s basically a flat rate for culture through the back door.

This concept first needs to be discussed publicly.

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Hopefully more legitimate uses of Bittorrent like this one pop up and force these ISPs to stop hiding behind their “it’s illegal” excuse to shape their network traffic.

my isp: stop using bit torrent,it’s illegal/unfair use of our bandwidth.

me: no,it’s not.it’s just cbc….see.

First I thought it might be some kind of comedy series ….

… but no!

It’s some kind of political “casting” mesh up.

What the fuck do they try to waste our time with now?

Not enough wannebe superstars?
Not enough wannabe supermodels?
Do they realy have to add wannabe “superpoliticians” now?

Are they serious or just media morons?

Why on earth should anybody ever want to look at “wannabe popular at any cost” people who are so media horny they are even willing to molest viewers with their pathetic opinions on how to build a better world?

Does politics really have to become so crappy that it’s meassured in TV popularity of media whores?
(Doesn’t it already enough?)

I wouldn’t even waste a single bit of my bandwidth or storage capacity for this crap!

CBC: share some real (valuable) entertainment or information program!

Not this disgusting crap of most idiotic production ever!

Idiots!

(@ TORRENTFREAK : What are the download rates for casting shows on Bittorrent in general? Can they measure up to popular TV shows (stargate, heroes, lost? That would be nice to know)

I only hope this crap flops on the Bittorrent network completely!

(i.e. Bittorrent users are smarter then those watching these CBC crap production on traditional TV – if anybody does at all!)

Their radio stations do nothing all day but tell you how great Afghanistan is now that our brave kill-bots are there to murder anyone who looks at them cock-eyed.

Their newscasts are similarly biased.

One thing you’ll never hear them talk about is the brutal regime running China and harvesting organs of dissenters. In fact, they’ve been caught actively censoring these uncomfortable truths. All it takes is a politician to call and it’s ‘taken care of.’

They did a 9/11 truth hit-piece a year or so back that was so obviously crafted for political purposes it made me want to vomit in terror.

The CBC really should be fully privatized so it can die a quick death.

BUT, because the network is operated by politicians and their corporate cronies, it is kept on life-support at the taxpayers expense.

When I was a kid, I lived in Windsor, Ontario, and NOBODY in this city would watch shitty Canadian TV, because even with crappy rabbit ears, you could pick up a good dozen or so real TV stations from the US.

CBC is to TV as NPR is to radio.

And btw this show they want to put online will probably get a whole 5 viewers a month. Just go over to cbc.ca and look at the garbage dump. They’re lucky to still have Hockey Night in Canada. And even that sucks ass (hockey is soooooo lame, Canuk equiv of Americunt Idol.) I hope Don Cherry dies while hosting that lame show.

P.S. the web master of this place needs to fix their fucking CMS so it doesn’t complain about comments being posted too quickly.

What they need to do is fire all the old people and yuppies who work there, and hire a new staff of kids under 25.

But yeah; the Prime Minister is a conservative, and decided to reduce funding for the network (something about it not being “our job” to make free TV / entertainment), so it makes sense that they would explore less expensive means of doing what they do: serving the public and paying the bills.

*for those interested, the others are CTV, Global, and in ontario TVO.[/quote]

And in the course of saving all that money, make sure as many people as possible are able to download, what has to be a tongue-in-cheek jab at the administration who cut their funding. hehe

This effectively removes the argument that all torrents are illegal, and that filesharing is without redemption, to even the stupidest, most ‘tarded of the naysayers.

Now all the CBC needs is decent programming. They should take all the idiot money for CanCon crap and plow it into this and evelopment of decent shows regardless of Canadian Content. Then they’d finally be worth something to the average brain-possessing individual.

http://www.cbc.ca/nextprimeminister/blog/2008/03/canadas_next_great_prime_minis.html

And there will be no commercials in the torrent :)

~Norway

Mind you, every Conservative government since Dief (and a few Liberal ones too) has tried to move money away from the CBC. Not that it would have anything to do with their independent News service, oh nooo..

CTV has as much independence as their owners at Bell Media allow them, notatallthankyouverymuch. You might as well watch CNN or FOX news. IMO you will find no better newscast than The National with Peter Mansbridge. Excellent world coverage and fair regional representation in the coverage of the political especially. Pure CBC Gold.

But back on topic, I can’t imagine commercials being imbeded in the on-line downloads. Commercials are added by the regional affiliates, and the broadcast tapes would have only commerical que markes. No, if there’s anything at all it’ll be a CBC promo bump at the beginning or end…

As to who has previously downloaded the Rick Mercer report, I do believe aAF has released it from time to time, and it was certainly available on #DD (RIP! We all miss you still!). Being topical-humour, such as This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Daily Show, or The Colbert Report, I wouldn’t keep an archive, but I’m sure some out there will…

As for ISPs “paying the cost of this media revolution”, no, the costs will be passed onto the consumer, just as soon as enough of them make a stink about protocol-interference and traffic-shaping.

Including ads would only lessen the incentive, as they can be removed when recording anyway.