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I wish there was more regulation that was positive instead of negative. Here for instance imagine that if instead of punishing Netflix for not providing an arbi
by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
I wish there was more regulation that was positive instead of negative. Here for instance imagine that if instead of punishing Netflix for not providing an arbitrarily determined sufficient amount of local content, why not provide positive incentives for other companies (or Netflix as well) to do just that.
For instance for each 10% of your catalog that is made up of region local content, you get an 8% tax deduction. As companies adjusted to the new incentives, these values could be gradually lowered over time. This would help spur on new competitors as well as give established players a great motivation to not only provide a sufficient amount of local content, but also heavily promote it, in efforts to try to drive demand make it commercially viable to make even larger chunks of their catalog local.
Instead we get this, which is going to do little except encourage the bare minimum under threat of penalty. Just doesn't seem very logical.