Canada no longer Pirate Heaven
p2pnet news view | P2P | Movies:- “We’ve been good at weeding out the bad ones. Guys who aren’t necessarily criminals but thought it would be cool to do it are less likely to do it now and those who were crooks and were doing it have been caught.”
That’s Vince Guzzo (extreme right), ordered to pay a Montreal woman $10,000 after an employee at a cinema he owns rifled through her handbag, but failed to find anything incriminating — ie, camcording gear.
Canada is a hotbed of pirate crime, a haven for file sharing ‘criminals, said Hollywood lobbyists who were, “100% successful in brow-beating Stephen Harper’s government into changing Canadian laws to suit the movie industry,” said p2pnet last year, adding:
“The result was Bill C-59, Hollywood’s fast-tracked Canadian anti-camcording law.”
Now Guzzo is cited in a Canadian Press item which has him stating the law, “and increased security at the theatres has paid off, with his staff nabbing people bringing in camcorders or trying to tape movie”.
“Only a few years ago, Montreal was known as the illegal camcording and movie piracy capital of North America and fingers were also pointed at Calgary,” says CP, completely failing to note the fingers belonged to Hollywood alone, or that the entirely false appellation was regurgitated ad nauseum by Canadian press outlets without reliable proof of any kind.
The reality, however, is: a significant number of movies — possibly the bulk — which show up on the P2P file sharing networks are put there not by kids (or crooks) with camcorders, but by Hollywood insiders.
Don’t bother to stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
rifled through her handbag – Cinema search victim gets $10,000, June 1, 2009
p2pnet – 2nd Canadian charged with camcording, January 18, 2009
Bill C-59 – Canada anti-camcording law: who needs it?, December 5, 2007
Canadian Press – Canada shedding reputation as illegal camcording haven as incidents decline, July 12, 2009
Hollywood insiders – Streets of Blood online, July 6, 2009
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July 14th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Another thing to ad to this story is that most cams of Hollywood movies come from Asia, eastern Europe and Russia! Then once a cam release is done, shortly thereafter cams with in-line audio come out, which are audio taken from special theatres that make available direct audio jacks connected to the seats. This is for hearing impaired customers and it’s known to the industry which theatres in the world offer such a service. Finally, more movies are embedded with a special code that is printed on so many frames of the film. This code can’t be seen by people copying the film with a camera but the playback can be deciphered by the industry. So when a cam of a movie is uploaded on the Internet, the industry insiders are aware of what region of the world this film was distributed to, so Canada was just a convenient scapegoat for Hollywood to flex its legal muscles. But they damn well knew that most of the cams and especially the in-line audio cam releases were coming from mainly Asian theatres!
July 14th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Could it be because Canada answers their phone calls while the other countries don’t care?
July 14th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I partially agree, Robert. But, it wasn’t Canadians who answered the phone calls. It was some unsavory sort of folk in the ilks of compliant and willing politicians who took the calls. Remember Sam Bault, Bev Oda, Josee Vernier, Jim Prentice, et al who were quite willing to bend over?