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."

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"Smoking camcorder"?

[UbuntuDupe]

If you don't understand metaphors, please ... just don't use them.

Re:Due South

[Rei]

I'd actually believe this. The only Canadians' houses I've been in were full of pirated videos -- both walls full of VHS and hard drives full of digital. So, even while this article is about recordings with camcorders, from what I saw, there's a cultural leaning towards free copying of videos. Combine that with first-world movie release dates and recording technology being readily affordable...

Re:Due South

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not a piracy tax, dumbass. It's a levy that's paid on CDs and ONLY CDs. Not DVDs, not DVD-Rs, nothing but CDs, and even then, CDs that are explicitly marketed as for AUDIO RECORDING PURPOSES.