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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."
If you tell me the truth you will hurt me, so you mustn't. But if lie you will hurt me too so you must. But if you do you will hurt me so you mustn't. Herbie would certainly have quite a time with this story.
I think you got your Christmas present.
Nah, some jackass always ruins it.
There is a war going on for your mind.
Was that a death threat? Seems more like an opinion that the world would be better off if he were dead, or at least his usefulness would not decrease if he were dead. A hair different from advocating his death, and at least a little different from threatening to cause it.