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Canada already has this law, for as long as I can remember.
It sounds cruel and unusual to torment the population with Nickelback and Justin Bieber.
How about Unleash the Archers?
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To me, having this government mandated content is simply bizarre, not unlike old soviet censors looking at movies and deciding what was “soviet enough” to get the approval from the bureaucracy. > Now if we could actually produce quality shows it would be great (right now its like 90% bad soap/romcom/cop shows) Disney and Marvel made billions of dollars simply making content people want to watch and pay for, why not s…
> Disney and Marvel made billions of dollars simply making content people want to watch and pay for, why not simply do the same and compete in the marketplace? Imagine how ridiculous it would be if there were quotas on iPhone sold so that BlackBerry still had a legally mandated market share. This is unchecked capitalism and it is self-destructive (to the larger society) which is why it's necessary for anti-competitiv…
Unchecked capitalism is when you let the companies grow and monopolize markets indefinitely; what does that have to do with simply respecting the customer preferences?
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#143As a Canadian, I am of two minds about it. FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time. There are not too many, in absolute numbers, songs that are both Canadian and popular which results in few songs being broadcast to death. At least that was the case when I used to listen to FM radio. On the other hand, that legislation certainly helped Canadian artists.
It feels to me like if the goal was to help Canadian artists who are "drowned out" by US media, it would suffice to launch a government-run non-profit streaming platform exclusively for Canadian content - then all people looking for it would know exactly where to go, and artists would get all the money that those people are willing to give.
And if that scheme is not sufficient, then we're talking about forcing people into consuming content that they wouldn't otherwise.
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> Disney and Marvel made billions of dollars simply making content people want to watch and pay for, why not simply do the same and compete in the marketplace? Imagine how ridiculous it would be if there were quotas on iPhone sold so that BlackBerry still had a legally mandated market share. This is unchecked capitalism and it is self-destructive (to the larger society) which is why it's necessary for anti-competitiv…
Unchecked capitalism is when you let the companies grow and monopolize markets indefinitely; what does that have to do with simply respecting the customer preferences?
Perhaps 50 years ago these restrictions and quotas made somewhat sense because of the limited spectrum of frequencies to broadcast, but right now the entertainment market is more competitive than it has ever been!
Creators are breaking a million subscribers online simply by making content people like and want to watch. On a shoestring budget!
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> It pushed some local artist to get creative and come out with some electronic traditional music, which frakly, sucked You gotta start somewhere. I lived through a similar transition in a different country, I hated the law at the time for the same reasons. However, it lit a fire under the local music industry which now supports more artistes than before. The music now sucks much less, and the local subgenres are uni…
>> You gotta start somewhere Such a strange concept. People like songs from "Region A" but we in "Region B" and want people to like songs from our own region. We do this by restricting access to "Region A"'s songs, not by making better songs in "Region B".
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