Thursday, January 25, 2007

50% movie piracy from Canada: Hollywood

What absolute BS.

  1. This has never been about piracy, it's been about control. Control to make more money to charge us to watch their content in new ways. Do you want to watch this at home? That's $20 for the dvd. Want to watch this on your computer? Oh, that's another $20 because you're computer is different. Another $20 to watch it on your video ipod, and another $20 if you want to watch it on the VCR. Doesn't matter if you already bought it, you bought the physical artifact, not the content.
  2. Canada can't be responsible for 50% of the piracy in the world. More than 50% of movies come out in Bollywood, not Hollywood -- and the Indians have to be doing a lot of piracy for themselves. Secondly, we're 10% of the population of the US. That's got to count for something. Thirdly, who watches camcorder shots of movies in the theatre when direct theatrical pre-releases are nearly constantly available on the net that are perfect DVD quality?
I call FUD on this one. The problem is not that Canadians are pirating movies. It's that we're actually legally entitled to fair use, where America is not. And this is a challenge to the studios, as well as the RIAA.
http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=b3dea202-82da-4ad9-b6f8-277923bc1f6b

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