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

On June 1, 2007, the Government of Canada responded to U.S. pressure and introduced anti-camcording legislation. This shows how the movie piracy issue leaped to the front of the line.

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[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.

[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.

[Locke1217]

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

[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.

[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?

[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!!!!