Awww those poor poor billion dollar corporations… So sad… /s
I’m for it as long as they don’t force Canadian content on users in Canada. I’m all for supporting Canadian artists, but radio in particular is fucking awful bc all they play is rush and metric ad nauseum to meet their content requirements
Dont hurt me profit!!!
I can’t believe you would stab me right in the profits!
The letter argued that Canada’s radio regulations were designed to address the problems created by its vast geography, its “linguistic duality” (English and French), and the fact that space on analog radio is limited, making decisions about what gets broadcast necessary.
Citation needed DiMA. Way to try framing the issue to look in your favour.
Instead of those “issues” we now have locked down apps and opaque algorithms that reduce user control.
To be fair I have found some good stuff through the recommendations, but I also don’t know how often they try to boost certain artists because of back room deals. Companies need regulations to keep them slightly honest.
Under those rules, streaming services that are not Canadian-owned and have more than CAD $25 million (approx. USD $18.5 million) in revenue in Canada annually are required to pay 5% of that revenue into funds that subsidize Canadian content and creators.
Under that plan, 1.5% of music streamers’ revenue would go towards subsidies for local radio stations.
Lol, yea, pay your fucking taxes, grifters.
I don’t understand why streaming should support radio ? They should support artists and new artist via taxes though, that makes total sense.
But the radio …?
Because streaming is international while radio is local.
If international sites wanna play their music in Canada, then they should pay for the privilege.
