Bill C-11 committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. My name is Tanya Woods, and I am legal counsel for BCE, here today representing Bell Media. I'm joined by Richard Gray, who is the general manager of Magic 100, Bob FM, CFRA, and The Team 1200 in Ottawa. Thank you for mov

Bill C-11 committee  We appreciate the time each of you has spent addressing the issues that matter most to our industries. Thank you for inviting us to share our views with you regarding Bill C-11, and specifically those pertaining to the technical changes we are seeking for notice-and-notice and th

Bill C-11 committee  I can confirm that it has; it has almost doubled, actually, in the last two years, and tripled since it was introduced.

Bill C-11 committee  I just want to make a clarification. We don't buy the music. The labels send it to us through a digital delivery service. We receive it in the format that they decide.

Bill C-11 committee  That's right, that they decide. For example, it could be in a WAV file and our system may need it in an MP2 file. We have to make that conversion at each station.

Bill C-11 committee  That's exactly right.

Bill C-11 committee  No.

Bill C-11 committee  You're exactly right.

Bill C-11 committee  I'll have to take the question for Mr. Gray. Radio doesn't do notice-and-notice. For that matter, neither does Bell Media. With respect to the way we view things, it's interesting when we hear that ISPs make money off piracy, because in fact the business of being an ISP is to m

Bill C-11 committee  That's correct. We would be happy to do that. We have absolutely no problem passing along the message, in particular because we're both a copyright owner and an ISP.

Bill C-11 committee  People use technology every day, all kinds of technology. I mean, the pen is technology from a quill, right? People can do whatever they like with technology. As an ISP, we're totally neutral. We offer a technology; it does many, many things. Unfortunately, there are people who

Bill C-11 committee  I want to correct one assumption there. We didn't increase bandwidth to accommodate piracy; we increased bandwidth to accommodate user demand. User demand includes having faster speeds, having more access. Nobody wants to wait three hours to watch the movie they have downloaded f

Bill C-11 committee  Netflix, I would have to assume, would be legal.

Bill C-11 committee  Thank you. Here's the thing. Notice-and-notice is a service. It's nothing more and nothing less than a notice service, much like a courier, much like the mailman. We're passing along messages, and to preserve our neutrality we're happy to do so. That is something we agreed to do

Bill C-11 committee  Yes, there are immense challenges. Bell has not yet fully automated its process and we are receiving at least a million notices a year. On top of that, we have to handle wireless. If we think about what takes place on an open Wi-Fi network, your smartphone, or your tablet, and ab