110% of movies pirated! MPAA
p2pnet.net news:- Cinema Blend’s Stuart Wood has picked up on the CANADIANS ARE !@#$^*& THIEVING CAMCORDING MOVIE PIRATES ! story.
According Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), “Canada is supposedly responsible for 70% of all world piracy,” he observes, going on, “Yep, your friendly neighborhood Canadian supposedly accounts for 7 out of every 10 pirated movies. Well in a new report by the MPAA, they also claim that New York is responsible for 40% of world piracy. Four out of every ten pirated movies.”
But how, Wood wonders, can you have 110% of anything?
Hmmmmm. Maybe MPAA mathematicians who did the counting should have taken their socks off.
Anyway, he goes on:
When you consider other US cities and places like China, Malaysia, UK, the rest of Europe etc etc etc aren’t even included in these statistics, you start to wonder just what the MPAA members smoke while watching movies? Is the western world in total responsible for 231 out of every 10 pirated DVDs???
But the lying ain’t finished there. In what amounts to something close to an increasingly xenophobic anti-Candian stance that borders on fanatical and possibly racist, they are also lying about Canada’s current anti-piracy laws. The MPAA now claims that it is legal and commonplace to allow camcorders in to movie theatres in the Great White North.
As John Campea of The Movie Blog (an evil Canadian coincidentally) points out, during his screening of Spider-Man 3, there were rather large cinema screen sized warnings stating that taking a camcorder in to a movie theatre is an offense punishable by getting your equipment confiscated and a hefty fine. Identical to the procedure in the UK.
However, in the MPAA’s borderline fascist eyes apparently anything other than life-imprisonment for taking a camcorder in to a theater is just far too lax. And they are prepared to outright lie to get that view enforced.
The MPAA? Lie? Surely not.
Also See:
Cinema Blend – MPAA Lies About Movie Piracy!, May 10, 2007
CAMCORDING MOVIE PIRATES – Waltzing pirates in bulky clothing, May 10, 2007
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May 10th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
This really shows up the MPAA (and RIAA, really) as the extortionist liars that they are.
However, I’m not sure that they said this at all. If they didn’t, then bullshit like this really doesn’t help the little guy’s cause, does it?
Now before you all start calling me an MPAA shill, I’m only asking, because your site (p2pnet) links to its source, but the source at The Movie Blog does not link to anything. Just the wild rant of an angry blogger?
I tried looking on the MPAA website (as distasteful as that is), but couldn’t find these claims. If anyone can link to a statement by the MPAA, then that would make this allegation credible and true.
Anyone?
May 10th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9623.cfm
May 10th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
I can not beleive they would for one minute blame Canadains for the majority of pirated movies, I would ask all Canadains to download a movie and you let your local MP know where it is from, Russia, Poland, China, Korea. Actually do not do that just look at any torrent sites and you will see that most if not all pirated movies come from Europe and Asia. If you need to download a cam and you will probably never watch a movie with such bad quality again. I wait till they hit the cheap cinemas if I have any interest or I will pay the big bucks if I realy need to see.