Where Did iCraveTV Come From?

Convergence of several historical factors

• Inability to obtain licences to stream mainstream audio-visual content (i.e. TV) on the Internet
• Compulsory retransmission regime in Canada
• CRTC New Media decision exempting Internet broadcasting from regulation
• Copyright Board Tariff 22 decision

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Notes:

Some of these factors exist in other countries, but many do not.

Canadian retransmission regime required by FTA in late 1980s; like US situation prior to 1992; do not have the equivalent of the Cable Television Consumer and Competition Act of 1992

Also Canadian retransmission regime is not technology-specific