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Canadian Movie Camcording Addressed With Legislation
dottyslashdottydot writes "During Arnold Schwarzenegger's visit to Ottawa yesterday, it was confirmed that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be introducing a bill to make camcording in movie theaters illegal in Canada. However, people are skeptical that this will make any difference in the amount of pirated movies available. Doug Frith, president of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association was quoted as saying, 'is really the first step — not only for the movie industry — where the government has shown it will seriously address the whole area of intellectual-property theft.'"
It's ok, the clean copy from a screener DVD or a quality film scanner will be along in a second (;-))
--dave
davecb@spamcop.net
Camcorder piracy is for those who don't have the technical expertise to commit proper piracy. ^_^
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*Jedi hand wave* These aren't the cams you are looking for...
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
well, you can be prosecuted if you're caught filming a movie in the cinema.
What I've always wanted to do though is very obviously erect a camera with tripod in one of the aisles and then continuously tell people off for eating too loud / whispering / getting in the way of the shot.
"Guys, will you keep it down! I'm trying to film this!"
Summation 2
But why look at problems within your own distribution system or try to address the larger concern of finding ways to secure the high quality DVD screeners that magically find their way to the interwebs when you can just as easily find that the real problem stems from those evil canadian bacon eating molsen drinking bastards.
It amazes me that you've all apparently forgot those 2 magic words that should rule every aspect of both your personal and professional lives.
BLAME CANADA!
File Deletion is Murder.
Gee, Uncle Chill, it must have taken forever to transfer those divx/xvid'ed VHSes via a 300 bps modem!!!
Anything to help keep cam quality vids off Torrent sites.
It's about time. I mean seriously, who wants to download a movie only to find out it's a cam that some jerk posted?!?
I say jail 'em all!
That way we can be sure the movies we download are genuine DVD rips and not have to worry...
If the hydrant suddenly burst open, showering all nearby bikini-clad officers, I'm sure they could sell enough tickets to make up for any revenue lost due to piracy.