The Power of Lobbying: How Hollywood Got A Movie Piracy Bill

[OutreAnima]

Camcorders pick up IR light... so if theaters used IR flood lights to crap out any recording, it would solve the problem and no one but those people trying to record it would know the difference.

[FoodisExpensive]

Canada is still the best country to live in, The Dark Knight made over 1 billion dollars in theaters but still was pirated more than any movie that year. Why dont these studios make movies that are better to see in the theaters? Now they include digital copies on DVD's just making it easier for pirates.

[xnova5]

@FoodisExpensive

while movie makers should make movies that we actually wanna pay for your missing the point that the movie is their property the studio put up their money and if you want to see it your gonna have to pay for it.

[Locke1217]

Your test moves to fast buddy!!! fuck!!!

[sxmadrid]

I wish they'd stop exporting/making their piece-of-shit rally-round-the-flag dumbass movies per se.

[VolkColopatrion]

wait... "crisis" level?

since when did the taping of movies and the human drive to find loopholes in silly, non-concequential laws become illegal on the international level for something so trivial as a film?

[TheKnives777]

its called greed my friend, thees over the top Michal Bay 20,000,000 dollar budgets for movies in the states. Any good director works with in his limitations, Hollywood has over paid shit actors. I keep telling people if it didn't cost 20.00 to see a movie their would be a lot less piracy. Crimes are caused when the cost to obtain something is well out side the means of conventional standards. heck look at what happened due to oil greed. everything is too expensive and people are fed up.

[happilyjaded]

Look at who is against piracy...Joe billionaire looking to re-line his pockets.

If Canada falls to this pressure, we are doomed as a nation. The US thinks they can bully the world to get what suits their needs and it's sickening. Rule and ruin yours alone. America, don't tread on me.

[jipemaster]

America has no right whatsoever to pressurise other countries into changing their own national law or into abiding by 'international laws'.

This is the crap america is trying to pull on sweden now.

[mikekazik1]

This movie is such a piece of crap. Anti-pirates think that they can just scare pirates off by talking about anti-video recording efforts in Canada. People this is the age of bittorrent!!!!

[buringia]

Every music concert I've gone to has had conditions on the ticket ("no recording"), signs to the same effect at the gate, and searches of bags. If the pirating industry is costing the movie makers so much money, why can't the theatres do the same? It should be worth the minimal expense, if the problem is costing them so much money. And why isn't there any anti-screener legislation?

[langbei]

starinup: I'd rather the U.S. carry out their threat to stop the practise of advanced screenings here, or simply stop exporting their movies to Canada entirely if they're that concerned. Better that than trying to suborn laws and harm the sovereignty of Canada. We can do without ill-conceived and actively harmful (to the citizens) laws like the "PATRIOT" act (newspeak much?) or the DMCA, thank-you-very-much.

[langbei]

...As for the (unelected, unaccountable) WTO, etc.: which nations have been principally responsible for pushing for then promulgating "international laws" regarding copyright? Now when people bleat about draconian new copyright laws, governments can simply shrug and claim to be complying with rulings by supra-governmental bodies. That's mighty convenient for the media cartels, but surely just a coincidence, right? It's not like there are lobbyists or bribery involved.... uh, right.

[langbei]

...By first creating a climate of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt divorced from the reality of the situation (show us *real data* that Canadians supply the world with the majority of cam copies of movies), they are able to pass seemingly innocuous laws like this one. Do you really think it ends here, and with only this? What's more, the existing Canadian laws are already sufficient to the task! This bill is a marketing exercise...

[langbei]

Since the media industry is unwilling or unable to restructure to accommodate the changing competitive environment, they have resorted to attempts to legislate their continued solvency. They are not stupid enough to try buying a law requiring that we all be strapped into metal headgear and forced to watch their insipid product for 6 hours a day (though some moguls are surely taking notes). Instead, the last decade has seen them employ a strategy of 1000 cuts...

[starinup45]

So the point of this is that Canadians should have the right to record movies in theaters and sell them, without paying anything to the people who actually made it?

[logic1makes1sense]

I completely against this video. The Canadian Government acted in a way it is supposed to, according to International laws. It is crazy hippies such as yourselves who are against the 'war machine called America' who put so much pressure for International laws, and now that the Canadian government does something they should have a long time ago, and with complete respect to International laws, you get angry.

Go to back to Soviet Russia

[Segasmith]

Good video and collection of facts you got there regarding Canadian piracy, but I want to say this... What music in the video is that? =D

[langbei]

The text of the bill can be found at parl(dot)gc(dot)ca (search for Bill C-59). Sorry, can't post a link here in the comments.

Seems you could get up to two years in the clink if you're busted (insane!), and they get to take your camera too... <sigh>. This legislation is so obviously another gambit in the play being made by vested interests to 'reform' Canadian copyright law that it pains me. The MAFIAA would do well to crack open a history book: sic semper tyrannis!