Now imagine that you owned a cable company that made exorbitant sums of money over charging people for things like Pay Per View Movies. $6.00 a movie overcharging. And it worked for years, decades even, and you were able to pay your children (and executives, in the rare instances they weren't your children) tens of millions of dollars a year.
But then along came a company - Netflix - with a different business model. One that involved paying a nominal monthly fee ($8.00) that allowed you to stream or download as many movies as you wanted each month for the same price that you charged for a single Pay Per View Movie. What would you do? Would you challenge your children to come up with a competitive business model? Would you perhaps adjust their salaries to reflect the new "tough" times? Or would you lobby the CRTC to allow you to impose a bandwidth cap and charge users for downloads and internet usage? (thereby recouping some of your losses)...
We know what Shaw's doing. Visit stopthemeter.ca and sign the petition to make the internet - and cable company - a slightly more competitive place. Before it's too late. And really, does Jim Shaw need any more of your money to fund his drunken "tell it like it is" luncheons?