Canada No 1, says poll
p2pnet.net news:- Hollywood is doing its best to portray Canada as a nation of hard-core criminals and thieves bent on bringing honest, hard-working Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney to their knees.
And behind it all are copyright-busting Canadians with camcorders.
“Walking into a cinema and surreptitiously videotaping a movie is clearly wrong, clearly inappropriate, and something that should clearly be prohibited,” say US senators Dianne Feinstein and John Cornyn in unsolicited spam mail to Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper.
They say a US law (they authored) cured the problem in the States and now, “much of this illicit business has simply moved north”.
North. That’s us.
“If we can be of any assistance to you or your cabinet ministers, please do not hesitate to contact us,” they say.
Well, Gosh, Dianne, thanks. And thanks to you too, John.
Fortunately, however, Hollywood’s view of Canadians isn’t shared. In fact, Canada had the most positive rating in a new BBC “globe-spanning survey of attitudes toward 12 major nations,” says The Toronto Star.
“The United States had the third-highest negative ranking, with 51 per cent citing it as a bad influence,” says the story.
Also See:
hard-core criminals and thieves – Hollywood muscles Canada, March 6, 2007
The Toronto Star – Canada has most positive image worldwide: Survey, March 5, 2007
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Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!
March 6th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Gee colour me stupid…until the camcorder controversy actually was picked up by the MSM I had no idea that it was legal to record in a theatre in Canada.
I saw it on Seinfeld once, my kid buys bootlegs, I thought it was a non-issue.
I wonder what the voters in this poll knew…who cares…
I am just disapointed that somewhere someone thinks we are the best country in the world for something..
Yah BC BUd
March 8th, 2007 at 5:18 am
I take it you’ve never lived in the United States.