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Major music companies send letter to Canada’s CRTC, urging it not to regulate streaming as if it were radio
(www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
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Lol, yea, pay your fucking taxes, grifters.
Unfortunately, that 5% fee means Spotify prices are going up 10%
Sure. That just means that Canadian consumers of Spotify will be indirectly subsidizing Canadian artists.
I see no problem here.
Well, assuming you see having domestic content as a valid goal, anyway, which isn't necessarily a given.
Sure but then they pay more taxes. Increase in price means more revenue which means more taxes. It’s just a circle.
That's why they raise it by 10%, not 5%.
Say sub is currently $100/year, they now have to pay $5, they get $5 less. If they raise by 5% to $105, they have to pay $5.25, they get 25c less than originally. But if they raise to $110, they have to pay $5.50, and suddenly they are getting $4.50 more than before, even though they are paying more taxes. And they can blame it on this so people don't hate them as much and accept it.
If I remember something kn my econ 101 class, they're going up 2.5%, because taxes are not entirely pass to the consumer, they take a part of the company earnings too.
He ce Spotify prives going up 10, to make sure company profits are covered and then some
Interesting that they're pumping back money into traditional radio.
Gee, that's not the history I remember. I'm not super familiar, but wasn't it about holding back Americanisation? (We have radio band allocations separately)