Heated $2B Requirements: MPA Livid As Canada Jacks Up Streamers’ Content Revenue Contributions

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In what is shaping up to become a very heated rivalry, the Motion Picture Association didn’t quite use the word socialism today over a Canadian regulatory move, but they got damn close. The studios and streamers’ trade association did warn that “new rules” and financial contributions determined today by Canada‘s Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for streamers “undermines the open, market-based system.”

So, as the Stanley Cup playoffs advance, it’s not just the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens and the Carolina Hurricanes who are in a Canada and USA skirmish

“The Motion Picture Association strongly condemns the CRTC’s decision to

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