Warner Bros. cancels all promo screenings in Canada
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By M&C Movie News May 8, 2007, 14:28 GMT
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Interesting press release - really shows all sides of the issue from Warner Bros. perspective.
One side benefit of outlawing camcorders in theatres would be that mobile phones would quickly need to follow; the best of these can already make a passable recording of a feature-length film, and transfer it with reasonable speed by the time the sender gets to the end of the block.
People will complain at first, but this will be MUCH less complicated when recording of any kind of scene is illegal; releases for the people, trademarked logos and copyright images, it's all just too complicated for a family album or home movie. And when the MiB memory erasers are mandatory as you leave the theatre, you'll be able to enjoy the same finely-crafted summer movies over, and over, and over.
Face it, you were getting sick of Youtube anyway.
better to be camcording than shooting people. maybe this way Canadians will get a chance to make some box office on their homegrown films instead of big budget crap that the studios pump out.
Geez, last week it Wwas New York's turn to get blamed...www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=114sid=1130323
sorry...should have been =114&sid=
Who downloads theatre captures anyway???
The quality is always . . . .
These idiots are, as usual, barkng up the wrong tree.
' better to be camcording than shooting people. maybe this way Canadians '
Yes , Canadians use magic bullets and bombs that do not hurt people and do not destroy property .
The newspapers and history books are all lies ! We did not do it !
If the average Canadian lived in Germany in 1938 we would still have this insane vastly inflated self image .
This is totally from the companies PoV.
Unfortuantely we don't want ot put security in our theatres, guns on our streets or go through huge hoops to watch our citizens media usage. It's media. Charge them more on the back end buying CD's adn such. WE will not turn our citzens into criminals because the US puts private property rights over public rights.
We in Canada feel differently. WE have the right to no be harrassed by money grubbing corporations. Our governments serves us. Not the other way around. Sorry.
its the commemorative loonies with the secret recording device thats responsible.
I would like to see where they get thier numbers from? It is a joke, and they think that they can strong arm Canada into creating a piracy rule that will never work anyway. Should i turn my VCR in so us canadians can not copy thier brodcasts as well; eh
I am a disabled person living in an area where the nearest movie theater is 200 miles away. So, I don't go to theaters. Those rich fat-cats can just try and take my mouse out of my hand. It's a FREE market society, isn't it?
TORRENTS FOREVER!!!!!!!
What an interesting article. If only it was accurate.
The fact is that the statistic 'Over the last 18 months roughly 70% of Warner Bros. titles released have been camcorded in Canada.' is laughable at best. Just a few days ago the MPAA claimed that 40% of camcordings came from New York. Therefore New York and Canada together account for a staggering 110% of camcorder recordings!! If that seems impossible don't worry, the numbers can still add up, you just need to choose the right numbers. Afterall a few days later the MPAA decided New York was only responsible for 20% of camcorder recordings. And there's pleanty of choice on the Canadian side as well. We've been responsible for 20%, 23%, 30%, 40%, 50%, and the latest figure of 70% of bootlegs, all within a few short weeks!!
Oh, and apparently despite the new laws a recent MPAA report said camcordering was on the rise in the US, then again that was an MPAA report so you can take it with about half a grain of salt.
If a foreign lobby is going to pressure Canada into changing its laws the least they could do is not blatantly lie about it, and the least a news publication could do is actually question obviously fabricated data.
Warner join the rank of the most despicable company on the the planet, along with Sony, Macrovision and the Digital Mafia (MPAA/RIAA).
The only and sole reason for low-life warner to do that is to pressure canada to have ultra anti-consumer law like in the USA. but tuff luck.. you cannot easly buy 'laws' in canada as in the USA. the multi-bilion dollard hollywood does not need to bleed the justice system because a couple of peoples don't pay see movies. A 'cam' movie as no enterteiment value of any kind. if some morons d/l it, it is they lost.
The MPAA/RIAA is an open criminal cartel guilty of multiple crimes, they get away with it because the USA justice department is supermaker for crooked corporation (like Sony and macrovision).
If the goverment want to do somthing to combat crime just do this:
Close (and jail owners)
MPAA (criminal cartel with no legitimate purpose)
RIAA (criminal cartel with no legitimate purpose)
Macrovision (illegaly infested video media with DRM for more then 25 years)
Sony (infected million of computer with virus)
Since no goverment as the gut to do the right thing. Just stop 'buying' your entereinment until the MPAA/RIAA dies... the monster cannot survive with no money.
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