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.'"

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Re:My comment to the CBC

[seaturnip]

Anyway, it seems preposterous to assume anything can be done about camcording: it can only have an effect if all attempted camcordings of a given movie are prevented. A single recording provides an infinite supply of pirated copies. This is even more hopeless than the War on Drugs.

Canada is a client state

[Scrameustache]

How big of a deal is this, really? Camcorders? Not big at all.

A foreign cartel forcing a supposedly sovereign nation to change their law according to their whims, THAT is a big deal.