yes, MPAA, THIS is what's going to stop piracy, I can see Bittorrent crying in the corner right now. Let's think about this. if you don't let people who PAID for the movie to see it, where are those people going to turn to?
hmmmm.. way to PUSH people toward piracy, MPAA
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I don't blame them.
It doesn't get any more illegitimate than filming someone's movie from a projector booth and then selling it for a profit. That's PROFITING from the outright theft (you didn't pay for it at all as a theatre employee) of someone else's property, not just giving it away like on Bittorrent. If you've never bought a DVD off the street with an official looking case, try it some time.
It'll be a camcorder version filmed from the projector booth. You'll hear the film in the projector, and someone will probably say "eh." sometime during the film.
I think you missed the point there. These are advanced screenings. So when someone steals the movie from there, they're able to make the movie available on the street (for a price) before it's available to the public at large in the theatre or on DVD.
There's great value to the initial release, and these theives are taking that value from WB. WB didn't say they were pulling movies from general wide release in Canada, only the advance screenings. This will hurt the career pirates, not people who backup their DVD's or download occasionally from bittorrent.
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Wow! All piracy is suddenly going to end, and it certainly won't continue utterly unabaited with not even a noticeable dent. No-sir-ee.
Not at all.
That should just about seal up movie piracy. Well done guys.
Nothing left to do now but sue some grandmothers.
as a canadian, i find it dissapointing that this is happening, but i know that in the end, it really wont make a difference all i can say is that this will only effect the timeline of rogue movie releases by a couple of days. It will remove the avaliability of crappy cam recordings and we will go straight to the dvd quality releases leaked from insiders.
The result will actually be increasing the quality and reliability of pirated movies, possibly bringing more people to them.
Protecting our nation from terrorists. nice!
I would comment on this, but I need to go sue a baby, a grandmother, and a dead person. Isn't it funny that this happens when there is a new bill for copyright reform being pushed forward. I can see the MP saying "look they won't even premiere a movie up here because it is so bad.
This new law will show them they can trust us again."
Right, because people who want to go see a movie on the big screen are really swayed by a shaky, washed out recording of a theater with people walking in front of the screen and talking in the background. The monkeys are wearing suits now it seems.
Get a clue MPAA: no one wants to see crappy cam quality rips! (I was so tempted to type that in caps). Besides, when I go see a new movie at any theatre in Montreal (I can't comment for other Canadian cities), the ushers use some kind of equipment and infrared sensors to make sure that no one sneaked in a camera.
"including the upcoming Ocean's Thirteen and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which'll surely not be pirated now." What really bothers me is that a foreign company is trying to coerce the Canadian government to change the criminal law ..
. they have no business trying to tell us what constitues a crime. To top it off they believe that their IP is so valuable that people should be imprisoned just for recording it; the current law that makes it a crime to record for the intent of distribution (piracy) is apperently not enough, I guess it's that pesky intent getting in the way.
It's not like intent is one of the defining characteristics of a criminal act in Canada or anything. Sheesh
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I'm Canadian, I've lived in several large cities, and I see tons of movies in theaters. Not even once have I ever seen anyone with a camcorder in a theatre.
I think these RIAA guys are totally nuts for thinking that pirating in movie theatres is going on to any extent in Canada.
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Yeah, and HD-DVD was cracked and the code was leaked all over Digg. What's Warner going to do to stop this HD-DVD piracy?
Stop releasing media to consumers in North America? Stupid move on Warner's part..
. Lame attempt to get the Canadian government to waste tax dollars on an unimportant issues. The funny thing, I am part of the media and I've read a lot of press releases pertaining to people being arrested for selling and distributing pirated media.
.. Now they're telling us the government isn't doing anything?
I live in los angeles and have a good friend who was a projectionist at a AMC theater by my house. The first thing that a theater does when they get new movies is screen them in an empty theater to make sure everything is good. there was someone there who was cam'ing movies there for a few years.
How about Warner get their sh1t together when it comes to distribution in Canada (Quebec)? They've missed street dates several times at the retail level - oh wait! It must be because we pirate their stuff so much.
Never mind.
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