Something we Canadians can be proud of - Piracy!

Pirates of the Canadians

Source: globeandmail.com: Pirates of the Canadians

For the third year in a row, the U.S. government has placed Canada on its "watch list" for a lack of IPR (intellectual-property rights) enforcement, which means this country is in the same company as notorious film-piracy hubs such as Lebanon, China, the Philippines and Russia.

In the letter, Snyder fumed that his company had discerned that, at one point during 2006, Canadian theatres were the source for nearly 50 per cent of illegal camcords across the globe: "Much like an out-of-control epidemic, those Canadian camcords . . . have become a leading source of worldwide Internet film piracy."

More so, he readily admits, because he recognized Snyder was absolutely right. Cineplex Entertainment -- in conjunction with the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association (CMPDA), the RCMP and other movie chains such as Empire and AMC -- have been lobbying the federal government for years to make it a criminal offence to pirate films. But so far their efforts have fallen on deaf ears. Sophisticated thieves toting black-leather bags with remote zooms, monitor devices and infrared sound receivers, and wearing sweatshirts or jackets with special holes designed to surround the lens of a camera, are having a field day.


Yeah - take that - where would all you American downloaders be without us Canadian Uploaders!