The Canadian government will introduce anti-camcording legislation today. Here's how it happened. Downloadable version here.
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The Power of Lobbying: How Hollywood Got a Canadian Movie Piracy Bill in Under Six Months
A video discussing how anti-camcording legislation got introduced in Canada.
The First Step
Over the past few months, I've often been asked why the movie industry would pursue anti-camcording legislation if the data was so inconsistent. My response invariably focused on the notion that this was the thin edge of the wedge – an attempt to paint Canada as a piracy haven and […]
MPAA Trumpets Spiderman 3 Camcording Crackdown
Jon Healey of the LA Times points to a joint release today [pdf] from the MPAA and the National Association of Theatre Owners trumpeting their success in stopping the camcording of Spiderman 3. The release notes that the industry stopped 31 camcording attempts worldwide, which it credits with helping lead […]
U.S. Senators Pressure Prime Minister on Movie Camcording
The dispute over movie camcording in Canada has escalated further with the intervention late last week of two prominent U.S. Senators. Senators Dianne Feinstein and John Cornyn have written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to urge Canada to enact new anti-camcording legislation. The letter pulls out all the usual suspects […]
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