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Canadian Movie Piracy Claims Mostly Fiction?

Justin Primus writes "Michael Geist's weekly column dismantles recent claims that Canada is the world's leading movie piracy haven. The article uses the industry's own data to demonstrate that the assertions about movie bootlegging and its economic impact are greatly exaggerated and that the MPAA's arguments about Canadian copyright law are misleading. I particularly liked how Geist dug up the fact that the MPAA itself says that there have only been 179 movies recorded with a camcorder over the past three years out of the 1,400 that the Hollywood studios released."

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  1. Re:To paraphrase Mark Twain... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Then, there is your mama.


    Your mama lied when she said your daddy is doin' okay.

    Your mama said a damned lie when she said she even knows who your daddy is.

    You are a statistic because you're an illegitimate son of a whore, like many others, and while this fact is unknown to you, you (like the MPAA) have begun to suspect that it is true.


    But I prefer to sum all of this up by just calling you a bastard.

  2. YUO fAIL IT?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the project is inp House... pathetic. the rain..we can be sure that I've