Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers

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• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  oh… this sounds like tax! But Tax that they can’t run away from!

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh, welcome to the fun world of transfer pricing. It’s advanced bullshit accounting.

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• Album@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Damn I thought we were past the CRTC limiting foreign media.

  I was always on the fence about it - they have rules like you have to play Canadian music on the radio x amount of minutes per non Canadian music (or something like that). It’s always made things a bit weird.

  When spotify and netflix came about - i thought the government had moved on from that era of control

  It’ll be interesting to see how this goes down - i imagine not well.

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a balance because most countries don’t want American culture burying their own. Those laws are what has made Canadian musicians so successful over the years. Music is really the only cultural thing that Canada is able to stand up for itself. Forcing broadcasters to dedicate X amount of time to domestic artists is important to prevent American media conglomerates from boxing out small and independent artists.

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    • arefx@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are so many incredible artists from Canada and for some reason it’s really hard for the majority of then to breakout in the states even if the quality of music is up to lar or often better than a lot of what’s popular in the USA. It’s always interested me.

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  • canis_majoris@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They tried it already with news media with Google and Facebook, and were basically told to pound sand. Facebook doesn’t provide news feeds in Canada anymore.

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    • Album@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, Bill C-18. Honestly… I think that one worked out in the favour of Canadians.

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    • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is not a loss in my books.

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  • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean Facebook stopped allowing news in Canada because they tried this too.

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• PlainSimpleGarak@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So what you’re saying is, Canada wants some of that internet money?

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• skozzii@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good, do more.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Canada is not very big population wise. I’m kind of surprised they have a presents in Canada

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  • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    40 million. Majority of Canada is pretty inhospitable for a good portion of the year

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Population density is 4.2/km2

      Not to mention 40 million isn’t that big. If companies left Canada people would just use the US version of services.

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