Hollywood attacks Canada
p2p news / p2pnet: Canada is next on the list of countries to have its national and provincial police forces suborned by Hollywood, its politicians harassed by behind-closed-doors lobbyists, and its media flooded by multi-million-dollar anti-’piracy’ campaigns.
Owned by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (The Walt Disney Company), Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Universal City Studios LLLP and Warner Bros Entertainment Inc, the MPAA and its offspring, the MPA, are very well known in Mexico, India and China, among other places.
There, the Big Seven studios routinely and regularly treat administrations like industry fronts, causing legislation to be re-written to better suit their consumer control requirements, and scarce police resources to be diverted from national duties to look after movie industry business.
And in the US, where what Hollywood says, goes, the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) and a host of other Hollywood inspired laws have been forced through Congress, with new ones appearing almost daily, to protect and enhancement movie industry profits and make sure the Hollywood point of view prevails.
There, file sharing has been successfully elevated to the level of murder and other major crimes.
Using the movie journal Variety as its messenger, “Canada is the newest enemy in the film industry’s war against piracy and Montreal is the No. 1 city in the world for illegal recording of feature films,” says the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).
“Ninety percent of illegal DVDs being sold are the result of a camcorder recording straight off a cinema screen, Serge Corriveau of the Canadian Motion Picture Distribution Association told Variety,” says a story. “He said 40 percent to 50 percent of the camcorded DVDs are made in Montreal.
“Because movies are released in French and English in Montreal, it gives pirates a leg up on the European market, Corriveau said.”
But, while the duplication is done in Montreal, “Toronto and Vancouver have become major players in the bootleg black market”.
Expect to soon to start seeing stories of how Canadians are depriving Hollywood set decorators, electricians and other movie industry support staff of their living and how the studios, which continue to report mind-bending, record-breaking profits, are having a tough time making ends meet because of file sharers and ‘pirates,’ as they call duplicators and counterfeiters.
And expect to soon see reports from the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) that they’re “cracking down” on movie “pirates” and p2p file sharers on behalf of Hollywood.
Also read:-
Variety – Canada becomes film piracy target, December 11, 2005
