Seems that my country, Canada, is becoming target #1 to the MPAA and those bodies fighting against movie piracy… and perhaps for good reason.
A recent report is suggesting that almost almost 50% of illegal movies recorded in movie theaters from camcorders and then made into DVDs are recorded in Montreal. That’s a HUGE number… so big I have a hard time believing it. But there may be a good reason for this imbalance. The good folks over at M&C give us this:
Because movies are released in French and English in Montreal, it gives pirates a leg up on the European market, Corriveau said. While the duplication is done in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver have become major players in the bootleg black market.
I’ll go on record again. I hate the MPAA prosecuting little Billy No Date for downloading a copy of “The Gil Next Door” from the internet (it’s not like he was going to buy a copy anyway), but I have no problem with them taking the fight to where it should be fought… against the people doing the recording and then releasing it. That’s just my opinion.
