Putting Canadian Piracy in Perspective 188
An anonymous reader writes "Over the past year Slashdot has pointed to many industry claims and governmental pressure over Canada piracy issues. Canadian law prof Michael Geist has produced Putting Canadian 'Piracy' in Perspective, a video that demonstrates how the claims are hugely exaggerated. For example, it shows how despite the MPAA's claim of movie piracy, Canada was the industry's fastest growing market last year. Similarly, while the recording industry says Canada is the world's top P2P country, the data shows that the Canadian music industry is experiencing record gains and that most of the decline from the major labels is due to retail pricing pressures."
Let's not forget the retail pressure from HMV (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Tell that to Sam the Record Man (Score:5, Informative)
A Public Relations Ploy (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/digital-music/pirates-
China has the right idea. Keep a steamroller mothballed, ready to pull out for the bi-annual "Drive over some CDs" Show.
Re:So what? (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_c
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_c
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/19/hollywoods_c
Re:Media Tax (Score:3, Informative)
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy [wikipedia.org]
Re:Media Tax (Score:2, Informative)
Canadian subsidies (Score:5, Informative)
Also the current crop of Canadian musical talent/popularity (not necessarily the same thing) is higher than it has been at any time since Rush, Loverboy, and Gordon Lightfoot stopped making records (at least south of the border, I don't know what is going on North of it, other than everyone likes The Tragically Hip and Sloan).
Some bands that have taken off in the past few years include, but are not limited by (mostly of the "indie" variety, and in SF will sell out at least a 1000 seat venue)....
On top of that there are another slew of bands quite popular up there, (they can actually make a living playing music) that rarely make it down here.
Canada No. 1? (Score:5, Informative)
Step 1 : Get the local media of each country to tell the people that they are the worst pirates in the world
Step 2 : ??
Step 3 : Profit!
Re:A bit offtopic (Score:2, Informative)
See http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/news/c20032004fs-e.html [cb-cda.gc.ca] for the list from copyright board of Canada.
Re:Canada . . (Score:5, Informative)
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/05/17/p