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Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy

Posted by Zonk on from the should-we-blame-the-government-or-blame-society dept.

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."

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  1. Due South by aedan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Benton Frasier would never do this.

    1. Re:Due South by Simon80 · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is perfectly normal, everyone in my neighborhood does it. I've even got an extra igloo behind my main one, dedicated to storing all the pirated VHS tapes I've amassed over the years..

    2. Re:Due South by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny

      I've always wondered; how many VHS tapes can you fit on a typical dogsled anyway?

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  2. South Park by jours · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like the South Park gang was right after all.

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    1. Re:South Park by pollock · · Score: 5, Funny

      I haven't seen it. Got a .torrent handy?

  3. Delaying releases by Hobobo · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're going to delay movie releases to combat piracy? Brilliant!

    1. Re:Delaying releases by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

      So by that logic, if they delayed the release EVERYWHERE by two weeks, they'd stamp out piracy alltogether?

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  4. Blame Canada.. by zyl0x · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..we're not a real country anyway.

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  5. Brrrrr.... by Otter · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...almost requiring a law officer to have a 'smoking camcorder' in the hands of the accused.

    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?

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  6. this is serious by scooviduvoctagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're obviously going to need to declare war on Canada. This aggression will not stand.

    Piracy is IP Terrorism.

  7. Great. Now I Get To Deal With Them At the Theater by Doug+Dante · · Score: 4, Funny


    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.

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  8. So by VEGETA_GT · · Score: 4, Funny

    The US is the other 50%.

  9. More lobbying lies... by sinij · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  10. Thank you! by kmac06 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  11. On behalf... by Cervantes · · Score: 3, Funny

    On behalf of all Canadians...

    You're welcome.

    -Cerv

    PS: We promise to seed more.

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  12. Re:Taxes by OverDrive33 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd rather have both a piracy tax AND habeas corpus instead of having neither.

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