“The regulations exclude revenue from audiobooks, podcasts, video game services, and user-generated content. The exclusion of revenue from user-generated content is a win for Google's YouTube.”<p>Yeah it also makes sure Montreal’s thriving video game industry isn’t negatively impacted either. And Google have branches in Canada employing Canada maybe Netflix doesn’t have as many I wonder about that.<p>This is another reason why I hate it when countries do stuff like this because they always implement it very hypocritically too. They didn’t innovate the wildly popular product that has come into their country or “being dumped” into their country which is usually their word choice driven by envy and their local competition can’t compete so they pull nonsense like this to get at some of that revenue.<p>India and China have done variations of this for years but now Europe and it looks like Canada are doing it or planning to and I’m sure soon other countries.<p>Even here in America this has started with Biden’s recent moves on China and Trump wants to double those if elected. So both parties are moving into this mindset.<p>Most American multinational companies generally thrive in a global marketplace, same with Japanese, Chinese, South Korean, and German companies. I know Spotify was Scandinavian but they moved to the US some time back right?<p>I guess rest of the world got fed up with this small set of countries dominating the Consumer Tech and Entertainment marketplace and wants to grab at some of their revenue when it’s coming from people living within their borders using the international product.<p>Companies will probably just pass these costs on to the consumers and try to minimize absorption.