Canada: top Hollywood market
p2pnet.net news:- Canada is the favourite port of call for camcording pirates, a reality that’s wreaking terrible havoc within the corporate music industry.
That’s what Hollywood says, anyway. And this persuaded Canadian prime minister George W. Harper to cave in to movie studio demands to introduce new laws which’ll turn people found using camcorders in cinemas into criminals who could wind up in jail.
Never mind that the ever-changing numbers touted by Hollywood to support this contention related more to science fiction than proven statistics, as is the norm.
However, Hollywood’s tales of woe notwithstanding, according to a confidential MPA (Motion Picture Association) document quoted by the Hollywood Reporter, “Canada, covered as a foreign market by the MPA as opposed to studio positioning as domestic, showed the biggest international growth in terms of dollars in 2006 by adding $341 million, a jump of 23%.”
Not bad for a nation reportedly plagued by pirates.
Also See:
wreaking terrible havoc – Canadian Movie Piracy Bill cometh, May 31, 2007
Hollywood Reporter – MPA study: Brighter picture for movie industry, June 15, 2007
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