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Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy
westcoaster004 writes "Hollywood is blaming Canada as being the source for at least 50% of of the world's pirated movies. According to an investigation by Twentieth Century Fox, most of the recording is taking place in Montreal theatres where films are released in both English and French. This has led to consideration of delaying movie releases in Canada. Their problem is that the Canadian Copyright Act, as well as the policies of local police forces, makes it difficult to come down especially hard on perpetrators. Convicting someone is apparently rather difficult, almost requiring a law officer to have a 'smoking camcorder' in the hands of the accused. Hence, the consideration of more drastic measures."
Benton Frasier would never do this.
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It's all that bitch Anne Murray's fault!
Looks like the South Park gang was right after all.
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They're going to delay movie releases to combat piracy? Brilliant!
..we're not a real country anyway.
Blerg.
Sorry, but I just arrived from a 15 minute walk between buildings and my brain is frozen. (Which, I believe, is also Canada's fault.) Could someone please make the appropriate Sony battery-related comment?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
We're obviously going to need to declare war on Canada. This aggression will not stand.
Piracy is IP Terrorism.
Great. Now I'm going to have to watch a movie from behind some Canadian snow-back who slips over the border; his camcorder blocking half my view, and my only connection to the movie the flashes of the screen I get as his flopping head jib-jabbers "aboot" the militaristic nature of American culture.
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
It seems that everything's gone wrong,
since Canada came along!
PS: Canada is my #1 favorite foreign country, I love to meet Canadians who come to the USA, and I always enjoy visiting Canada.
The world will not get better through technology. We must seek to be better people.
The US is the other 50%.
Did you know that 75% of all statistics are made-up on a spot and remaining 25% are highly misleading when taken out of context?
Please, Canada? What about China, India or Eastern Europe where you can get movies before they released and where pirated disks openly sold on the street? Well, no, BLAME CANADA!
This is nothing more than FUD spread by *AA in effort to influence upcoming bill.
Uh, yeah. If I steal your wallet, your money wasn't really of value, and the theft proves that. Furthermore, if I hit you over the head and take your wallet, that just goes to prove that your head isn't worth any more than a .torrent.
Lets get something straight. We didn't give you Steve Nash. MDG has a good solid grip on him still, good thing too, as I'm still waiting for him to make my new PC!
E.
Never rub another man's rhubarb - The Joker
Finally the MPAA doing something I support. This will get rid of the crappy quality bootlegs on Limewire, leaving only the high quality DVD rips.
On behalf of all Canadians...
You're welcome.
-Cerv
PS: We promise to seed more.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
1) only consort with criminals; and/or
2) have confused video stores for houses; and/or
3) just make stuff up as you go.
By the way, most of our 'ouses have more than 2 walls ("both walls").
Nope, the t-shirt I bought at the Nicey Nice Authorized Tourist Shop for Non-Socialist Money Grubbers in Victoria, B.C. clearly has the word "Ay" emblazened upon it's Non-Socialist, First Nation's Friendly front.
AY!
Not to be confrontational, ay.
Hugs, anyone?
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Camcorders are not allowed to smoke in theatres in Canada
I'd rather have both a piracy tax AND habeas corpus instead of having neither.
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