compared to !north_america, you're getting off lightly.
Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada
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Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Certainly such a service could be even cheaper with official sponsorship and universal coverage. Perhaps Canadians can lobby their MPs to institute a national system providing every Canadian with a United States IP address. The Single-Payer-Proxy-System – or in French, Proxy Système à Payeur Unique (SPPS-PSPU). There's really no reason for the nation to stand for this sort of Canadophobic discrimination. Indeed, wher…
Maybe it would be better to discover and address the reasons why these services are unavailable.
Yeah. The market is too small - let's get procreatin', Canadians.
Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada
#43How about real nationwide coverage. Stupid Rogers monopoly
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#44Heres one: Last.fm's iphone app is not available in Canada.
But you can easily get it by setting up a US iTunes account which is slightly tricky but doable without a US credit or gift card.
Edit: http://www.simonblog.com/2009/04/14/how-to-register-an-itune...
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#45Is Canada any worse off than Europe, Asia, Latin America, or Africa in this regard?
Probably not, but in this case I imagine it was scratching a personal itch and no other country in the world starts with "can" - I imagine that bit really rubs it in the face of Canadians. I'm sure other copycats will emerge as people think up amusing domain options.
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Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Notice that many of these services offer copyrighted contents online. I think the primary issues they had with doing business outside the U.S. is that there are less copyrighted laws to adequately protect the material and that sort of business in those countries. It would also be notoriously hard to sue people who abuse them. Other services such as telecom have to deal with Canadian collusion and protectionism toward…
Protection is not the problem. The problem is that each jurisdiction is a different sales market for copyright holders. While selling into Canada, Australia etc the sellers may have given over a total copyright license, or there might be terms trying to prevent "leakage" from the home market and so on. For example, as an Australian, I used to be able to watch whole episodes of Stewart & Colbert via the website. Then…
And in a lot of cases it simply doesn't make sense to deal with a whole new regulatory system for a 10% bump in potential market size.
Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada
#47I wouldn't call it a "service", per se, but you cannot buy a Kindle from Amazon.ca. You can, however (and this is more on-topic), buy books for it, but the selection is limited.
Edit: I should add that a lot of the things that are available on Amazon.com (the US site) won't ship to Canada. You don't even get the option to pay for extra shipping charges; it just won't ship, period.
Edit 2: An article about Amazon's efforts to deal with the "cultural protection rules" here, among other things (like foreign ownership issues): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/amazon-given-g...
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can we get a Google Voice number in Canada with this service?
The issue with Google Voice isn't the IP address but needing an American phone number, so no, this service won't fix that.
use twilio or one of the other voip API's and setup a temporary inbound US number to do the gvoice authorization.
A few ppl I know international did this to great success
There is a weekend project + app in that for someone if they want to automate it for tasks that require an inbound US #
Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada
#49A little design feedback: With my 15.4 inch screen I could only see the first service, so I initially assumed that you were for some reason having ads for amazon cloud drive, and I also noticed an empty site forum (which I now believe is the forum specific to that service). It took me a great while to understand that I should be scrolling down - the page looked sort of complete as it was. You really need a more compa…
Thanks! I'm no designer so any feedback there is much appreciated. I've compacted things a bit, but will continue to tweak it.
I'm thinking I'll also add a drop-down menu around the top to let users jump to a service quickly (I've already got lots of feedback for other services to add so the page will just be getting longer).
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#50Away for Canadians (based on geo IP) to be able to log that they want access to this service would be great. I don't expect that this kind of petition is going to be effective, but the relative number of votes between each service would be nice.