Netflix has a 1 million dollar prize for anyone that can improve their recommendation by 10%.
Quebec residents are not eligible. We’re in good company. “Residents of Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Sudan are also ineligible to participate.”
Yesterday Google announced a $10 million “Android Developer Challenge”.
While we seek to make the Challenge open worldwide, we cannot open the Challenge to residents of Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, and Myanmar (Burma) because of U.S. laws. In addition, the Challenge is not open to residents of Italy or Quebec because of local restrictions.
We just have to be different, don’t we?
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This is one of my pet peeves from companies. It happens often even with Canadian brands.
Did you know that the Contest law in Quebec is applicable to every contest where the prices total more than $200? And the fees are 10% of the price values (if I am not mistaken) plus the costs of filling up forms, legal advices and publication regulations. It is easy to see why most of the companies forget us.
The idea behind the QC Law is to make sure the contests are not tricked. With easy access to information in the modern world, the law has become obsolete in my views.
You said it, Dan.:)
Get a p.o. box in Ontario or better yet, don’t you have family somewhere else?
Some of these Quebec institutions are getting pretty ridiculous. It’s one thing for the SAQ to stifle choice, but when Loto-Quebec stifles innovation, a line should be drawn. This stinks of pigheaded protectionism.
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