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   Witty Nickname, Jun 15th, 2007 @ 12:17pm

   
   

   Duh Mike, obviously millions of Canadians were buying tickets and simultaniously pulling out camcorders once the lights went down, then they sold the movies to the pawns on the South side of the border.

    

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   Booring, Jun 15th, 2007 @ 12:21pm

   
   

   This is

   Techdirt has become such a broken record. Piracy, Intellectual Property, Piracy, Intellectual Property. How about sticking to technical stories and not spouting the same old hyperbole about two stale topics?
   
   Just my suggestion from the it's-getting-really-old dept

    

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   Technomancer, Jun 15th, 2007 @ 12:21pm

   
   

   Hmmm... could it be?

   Isn't it strange? It's a simple fact that people tend to focus on their interests. If people listen to songs on the radio, they are likely to also want to download music - and for the good songs, people are often willing to pay good money for a higher-quality version of the song, or perhaps even see a concert from the group that produced it.
   
   Doesn't it also stand to reason that people who are interested in watching movies, and excited about movies might want to go *SEE* those movies in a theatre, or buy them on DVD as well?
   
   The only possible explanation for the RIAA's willful ignorance of the facts is that they are a bastion for an older outdated distribution model that doesn't want to change, and doesn't want change to happen to the rest of the world. Here's a newsflash: The market has *already* changed, and making it more difficult for people to get online content merely makes them angry and frustrated. Better to embrace the situation, and find a viable way to distribute movies cheaply (and legally!) through the net so that anyone can afford them. They'd make a mint, and instead of looking like the bunch of jerks they seem to be, they could come off as heroes.

    

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   Jakey000000000000000000000000000000000000001, Jun 15th, 2007 @ 12:22pm

   
   

   U.S. media market is gravely misinterpreting the w

   If the media companies (mainly movies and music) could focus on giving the highly pirated media out for free while not spending on preventing piracy and spend more money on encoding advertisements and what not, their sales would go up and in turn restore their image. As long as data is represented digitally, hackers and crackers will find a way to redistribute it. I think cbs or nbc has a good start with hosting their shows on their website so that anyone can watch them at their convenience with limited commercials. I don't watch much tv so I can't say exactly which network it is but I heard about it and liked the idea.

    

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   GoblinJuice, Jun 15th, 2007 @ 12:37pm

   
   

   Success!

   MPAA's stance: because of our intense efforts to crackdown on piracy in Canada, the industry is finally seeing growth. Proving, once again, that P2P and physical piracy does hurt the industry. So, we need to keep cracking down on pirates and P2P!
   
   :-)
   
   No matter how much money they make, they will always find a way to spin it. We're talking about Hollywood, after all. The same SOBs that have convinced the world that Angelina Jolie is talented, beautiful and a caring mother.

    

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   CdnFilmMaker, Jun 15th, 2007 @ 2:43pm

   
   

   The MPAA Should shut up!

   Why the hell is the MPAA worried about Canada. We are stuck making movies and TV shows with less than 10% of the funding and budgets of these idiots who make millions on their movies even with all the piracy going on.
   
   As Canadian Film Makers, we end up making very little on a production (In many cases, PAs make more than the producers). So screw the MPAA, and the American cry baby filmmakers, go cry in your cristal. I hope nobody sees your movie.

    

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   rEdEyEz, Jun 15th, 2007 @ 3:38pm

   
   

   Good news, indeed.

   Maybe, just maybe,... Hollywood will be so enthralled with their burgeoning growth in Canada that they'll pick up shop and move their sorry, freaky arses to up Qkwebec.
   
   This way, they can swill beer, sip wine, and bugger each other to til the canucks come home, away from us peaceful, G_d-fearing, decent folk.
   
   (senators, pppppppfft!)

    

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   MadJo (profile), Jun 15th, 2007 @ 4:34pm

   
   

   Reading these stories make me think that perhaps it's the intent of the MPAA to destroy their own business. That they do it all on purpose.

    

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   Michael A. Banks, Jun 15th, 2007 @ 4:48pm

   
   

   Hollywood's fears

   I think what happened is that Hollywood figured out that there's no money to be made pursuing this stuff. That, and the fact that a kid giving a friend a copy of a film doesn't take any money from them--not literally. When someone receives an illegal copy of a film, no money disappears from the production company's coffers. Nor is such a transfer likely to block the owner's future income, as the kid who was given the film is not likely to have bought it, anyway.
   --Mike
   http://www.michaelabanks.com

    

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    Michael, Jun 15th, 2007 @ 6:47pm

    
    

    Who Cares.

    Personally,I think MPIAA can take ALL the American crap out of our theatres and video stores, its all garbage anyway.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Jun 15th, 2007 @ 7:20pm

    
    

    Re: This is

    You forgot the occasional bit of data loss/theft.

     

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    Jon Healey, Jun 18th, 2007 @ 9:29am

    
    

    Huh??

    The anti-camcording legislation wasn't designed to boost moviegoing in Canada. It was aimed at curbing bootlegged DVD sales globally. A few years ago I was in Melbourne at a flea market bustling with bootlegged DVDs of newly released movies (which sold for $10 Australian, which was about $8 US, I think). The MPAA's anti-piracy people came through and confiscated a bunch of disks, and I looked at a few samples. Several of the films were telesyncs with English language audio and French titles. Those most likely were shot by camcorders in Quebec. Of course, I saw an equal number with titles in Cyrillic, so clearly Canada was just one of many potential sources for the bootleggers.

     

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