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

Album , 26 days 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.

canis_majoris , 26 days 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.

DrBob , 25 days ago

That is not a loss in my books.

cosmicrookie , 26 days ago

oh.. this sounds like tax! But Tax that they can't run away from!