Why Bell and others insist VMedia can not use the same rules to be both OTT and BDU

By Perry Hoffman

TORONTO – It’s a little complicated (and raises the spectre of the long-gone iCraveTV), but a Bell Canada injunction says VMedia can’t apply the BDU regs to its new OTT vice service.Bell says that the independent ISP and BDU is in the wrong by claiming it can distribute CTV and CTV2 as a retransmitter under section 31 of the Copyright Act.“There is nothing in the Act, or otherwise at law, that permits VMedia to do so,” Bell writes in an October 3 injunction filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against the recently announced VMedia Roku service. “To the contrary,...