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Bruce Dinsmore then took the floor, commenting on his unique experience as an actor on Tac TV, a program created specifically for the internet which has experienced huge success. On average, TakcTV and its French version Têtes à claques receive a million views a day. Dinsmore cited this as just one example for the huge market that exists for new media. He then called upon the CRTC to require ISPs to pay a levy to help continue to ensure the production of such new media, from which they benefit. He proposed that ISPs be required to pay 3% of their revenue to any new media fund that is created. He described 3% as being equitable, reasonable, sustainable, and essential for the survival of Canadian new media content. He also pointed out that 3% is half of what traditional broadcasters pay to the Canadian Television Fund which accounts for the fact that not all of the profits of ISPs are generated from the broadcasting of new media.
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Okay, is this not completely bass-ackwards? Aren't the ISPs delivering his show to (allegedly) a million people a day, and doing it for free? Now he wants them to pay for the production of his show on top of that?
Is that what he is asking for?