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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.

  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. 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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