Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy

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Posted by Enjoy on Jan-26-2007 21:26:

Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy

"Hollywood is blaming Canada as being the source for at least 50% of of the world's pirated movies. According to an investigation by Twentieth Century Fox, most of the recording is taking place in Montreal theatres where films are released in both English and French. This has led to consideration of delaying movie releases in Canada. Their problem is that the Canadian Copyright Act, as well as the policies of local police forces, makes it difficult to come down especially hard on perpetrators. Convicting someone is apparently rather difficult, almost requiring a law officer to have a 'smoking camcorder' in the hands of the accused. Hence, the consideration of more drastic measures."

WTF GUYS STOP STEALING MOVIEZ!

Posted by Ze_Pontificat on Jan-26-2007 22:18:

yeeeeeep mtl represent!

Posted by aria_clubber on Jan-26-2007 22:29:

Re: Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy

quote:
Originally posted by Enjoy
"Hollywood is blaming Canada as being the source for at least 50% of of the world's pirated movies. According to an investigation by Twentieth Century Fox, most of the recording is taking place in Montreal theatres where films are released in both English and French. This has led to consideration of delaying movie releases in Canada. Their problem is that the Canadian Copyright Act, as well as the policies of local police forces, makes it difficult to come down especially hard on perpetrators. Convicting someone is apparently rather difficult, almost requiring a law officer to have a 'smoking camcorder' in the hands of the accused. Hence, the consideration of more drastic measures."

WTF GUYS STOP STEALING MOVIEZ!

lol what is the difference between stealing movies and stealing music ... ?? NONE
i download movies, i admit it, maybe if they reduce the price of theatre entrace there will be less stealing no? 12$ to watch a movie , is way too much imo. plus 95% of what is commin out from hollywook last years has been shit ! when a movie is worth it i buy the dvd, or i have enough anticipation about the movie i go watch it. unless that i steal em , i dont care lol, theyre not loosing money anyway... so whats wrong with that.

Posted by DJ Charlie on Jan-26-2007 23:05:

Re: Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy

Posted by Enjoy on Jan-26-2007 23:11:

quote:
Originally posted by Ze_Pontificat
yeeeeeep mtl represent!

You joined to post that? ARE YOU A PIRATE?

Posted by DJ Charlie on Jan-27-2007 00:01:

quote:
Originally posted by Enjoy
You joined to post that? ARE YOU A PIRATE?

you stop pirating when you discover that others can do it for u

Posted by jester on Jan-27-2007 00:14:

I read about it a couple days ago long live Canada. Canada is the true free country. Screw God Bless America, its God Bless Canada bitches!

Posted by Ze_Pontificat on Jan-27-2007 00:56:

quote:
Originally posted by Enjoy
You joined to post that? ARE YOU A PIRATE?

no but oh do I love watching the first 4 episodes of 24 a whole week before the premiere

Posted by Paulr on Jan-27-2007 00:59:

if i remember correctly my last school session, there's a loop hole in the canadian Law.
I know there's a loophole somewhere in the document. I think something says that you can't download illegaly but you can't get sued due to privacy right or something.
Unless the law is reformed, Canada is an illegal download paradise.

I heard a spain senator tried to pass a law where downloading would be legal....

EDIT : well it was kinda said in the first post... was too lazy to read be4 posting

Posted by Spin Laden on Jan-27-2007 01:34:

you guys keep dat sheet up and Squib ain't gonna get his Benjamin's..ya heard.

In Canada, Hollywood = failing, hardware companies = succeeding. We're at least helping somebody out.

Posted by RayRayy on Jan-27-2007 02:23:

I laugh at that Hollywood is blaming us for pirating movies...its usually someone from the inside who releases them and ends on newgroups where most of them come from. Shit...Rocky Balboa was out like 2 days after the release ( DVD version)

Posted by Marcus007 on Jan-27-2007 02:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Spin Laden
you guys keep dat sheet up and Squib ain't gonna get his Benjamin's..ya heard.

FUCKING REPRESENT BROTHER!!!!

Posted by RayRayy on Jan-27-2007 03:57:

quote:
Originally posted by Paulr
if i remember correctly my last school session, there's a loop hole in the canadian Law.
I know there's a loophole somewhere in the document. I think something says that you can't download illegaly but you can't get sued due to privacy right or something.
Unless the law is reformed, Canada is an illegal download paradise.

I heard a spain senator tried to pass a law where downloading would be legal....

EDIT : well it was kinda said in the first post... was too lazy to read be4 posting

what it boils down to is that ISP providers like Roger/Bell believe that is an invasion of privacy to provide grps in the US the IP addresses of the users who download movies at these torrent/newsgrp sites. As long as thats the case...we should be fine.

Posted by RoOmIE on Jan-28-2007 21:47:

i don't steel movies i just borrow them off the internet and send them right back out again

its called renting

btw if you want an invite to a private tracker ... pm me

Posted by Leif on Jan-30-2007 01:05:

I believe that part of the loophole is that it's perfectly legal to download content but not-so legal to upload it...

With bit torrent you're pretty much forced to upload anyways tho (which is a good thing in most aspects... well aside from f****** cheap Videotron imposing a 10GB upload cap each month)

quote:
Originally posted by Enjoy
[...] This has led to consideration of delaying movie releases in Canada."

...which would be one more reason to download movies

Posted by SummerWolf on Jan-30-2007 01:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Leif
well aside from f****** cheap Videotron imposing a 10GB upload cap each month)

just buy the unlimited one?

Posted by RoOmIE on Jan-30-2007 01:56:

i have bell 5 mbs unlimited

Posted by SummerWolf on Jan-30-2007 01:58:

quote:
Originally posted by RoOmIE
i have bell 5 mbs unlimited

videotron 10 mbs unlimited here... i was tempted to take the 20 mbs coz i usually play online a lot with my 360 but since i moved to montreal 2 months ago... my 360 is still in the box...

someone wanna buy a 360 ? lol

but ya... i love my internet connection

Posted by RoOmIE on Jan-30-2007 02:26:

ya but the 20mbs has a d/l up/l cap on it

Posted by mmx on Jan-30-2007 02:38:

I like how Hollywood is going to delay movie releases here in Canada to "combat" piracy. Anyone else see the problem with that solution? Sure, they'll stop us from recording films in the theaters, but that will only fuel the downloaders.

Posted by SummerWolf on Jan-30-2007 03:05:

quote:
Originally posted by RoOmIE
ya but the 20mbs has a d/l up/l cap on it

so the best would be the 10 mbs one

Posted by Leif on Jan-30-2007 04:07:

quote:
Originally posted by SummerWolf
just buy the unlimited one?

Shouldnt have to... very few ISP's (used to at least) impose an upload / download cap... it's just a cheap way to make money and not something I support.

Posted by SummerWolf on Jan-30-2007 04:24:

quote:
Originally posted by Leif
Shouldnt have to... very few ISP's (used to at least) impose an upload / download cap... it's just a cheap way to make money and not something I support.

shaw never did... but we dont have shaw in quebec which pisses me off

Posted by Hajduk on Jan-30-2007 18:27:

Damn straight.

Posted by RoOmIE on Feb-02-2007 04:16:

anyone else up for an invite to the private tracker??

send me a pm with your e-mail