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Copyright License Fees Drive Pandora Out of Canada
An anonymous reader writes "Online streaming music services such as Pandora are abandoning plans to launch in Canada, claiming licensing fees are too high: 'These rates ... are astronomical,' Tim Westergren, founder of California-based Pandora, wrote in an email to The Canadian Press. The agency that collects music royalties in Canada on behalf of record companies and performing artists wants to charge web-based music sites that stream to mobile devices the greater of two figures: 45 per cent of the site's gross revenues in Canada or 7.5-tenths of a cent for every song streamed. Meanwhile, record labels are blaming the lack of online music services in Canada on piracy: 'Why would you spend a lot of money trying to build a service in Canada when Canadians take so much without paying for it?' said Graham Henderson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, which represents major record labels."
Let's face it, Canada could not exist without the US as a neighbor. This is also what keeps Canada from becoming a great country (talented people have no monetary incentive to stay in Canada when you can go to the US and make real money).
It would only be an overreaction if someone actually did it. Quite simply the world would be a better place in he & people like him weren't in it.
Burn karma, burn.
There is a war going on for your mind.