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just make content ludicrously expensive and force people to pirate it, then don’t follow up on people doing so
that’ll make some very powerful interest groups that basically only exist in the US absolutely frothy with rage
Dude America is the biggest exporter of culture in the world.
The biggest Canadian cultural influences made their mark in American media. Jim Carey. Ryan Gosling. Ryan Reynolds. Robin Williams. Raffi. Tommy Chong. The Rock. Seth Rogan. Will Arnett. William Shatner. Eugene Levy. Mike Myers. Rick Morannis.
To name a few.
(Also are there any famous Canadian Actresses?)
yeah: that’s what i’m saying… america is basically the place that the entire anglosphere and plenty beyond that get like 99% of our modern entertainment
it’s a huge industry that basically only the US has… so quit cooperating with copyright stuff… the world has bent over and taken copyright law from the US for far too long: their definition fucking blows, and is counter to the common good
so fuck em - tariff the shit out of it, and people will just pirate it… we learned in australia that if you don’t release content, or make it hard to access people don’t just not consume it… australia is one of the biggest pirates in the world because in the early internet days with region locking nothing was available here… we still watched it; we just didn’t pay for it
to this day (IANAL) piracy in australia is LEGAL: its legal to download, but not to share pirated content - torrents are out, but usenet is 100% fine
once the entertainment industry realizes that oh fuck their position globally is in jeopardy (if canada were to do this, it shows the rest of the world a next step) then they’ll be pretty pissed
That just makes their "culture" industry all the more a viable target. I'm sure everyone you've listed will be fine.
Even Raffi?
As a Franco Canadian it's always funny to see Anglo Canadians realize that their culture is the US culture + The Tragically Hip while we punch above our weight in that domain.