Canada says $200M in annual fees will support local news and other content.
Canada is not very big population wise. I’m kind of surprised they have a presents in Canada
40 million. Majority of Canada is pretty inhospitable for a good portion of the year
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.
Very low average density but the vast majority of the population is close to the US border. The vast majority of the land in the country is completely empty
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.
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.
There are so many incredible artists from Canada and for some reason it’s really hard for the majority of them 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.
Recommend some good Canadian metal?
Sum41 bruh
Unleash the Archers
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.
Oh yeah, Bill C-18. Honestly… I think that one worked out in the favour of Canadians. A bit whack though.
That is not a loss in my books.
oh… this sounds like tax! But Tax that they can’t run away from!
Oh, welcome to the fun world of transfer pricing. It’s advanced bullshit accounting.
So what you’re saying is, Canada wants some of that internet money?
