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Putting Canadian Piracy in Perspective

Posted by Zonk on from the those-canuck-bandits-will-get-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over the past year Slashdot has pointed to many industry claims and governmental pressure over Canada piracy issues. Canadian law prof Michael Geist has produced Putting Canadian 'Piracy' in Perspective, a video that demonstrates how the claims are hugely exaggerated. For example, it shows how despite the MPAA's claim of movie piracy, Canada was the industry's fastest growing market last year. Similarly, while the recording industry says Canada is the world's top P2P country, the data shows that the Canadian music industry is experiencing record gains and that most of the decline from the major labels is due to retail pricing pressures."

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  1. Tell that to Sam the Record Man by Futaba-chan · · Score: 0, Redundant
    That may be true, but Toronto's biggest retail music store just went out of business due to competition from online sales (iTunes) and from downloading. :-(

    Yes, the RIAA and MPAA exaggerate just about everything... but that doesn't mean that everything is all roses north of the 49th parallel.

  2. Re:So ... in other words ... by Alphager · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It might be lying or it might be delusion, it's probably both. The music giants are falling, but they don't understand why. They got rich running things a certain way, and they are still running things that way, but now they are losing money. No, they are _NOT_ loosing money. Sony BMG hat over 5 Billions in revenue in 2005 (http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/135/135429.html)