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Hollywood on Movie Piracy: Blame Canada!

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Twentieth Century Fox has determined that up to 50 percent of pirated movies that hit the intertubes come from Canada—particularly Montreal. If those dirty Canucks don’t clean up their act, well, they’ll just have to wait longer to see movies. Ha! While we’re at it, let’s pin cracking Blu-Ray and HD-DVD DRM on Canada too.

Apparently they need laws more like ours, where recording a movie in a theater nets you eight years of jail time on top of a $250k fine, making movie tickets in New York actually seem cheap.

50% movie piracy from Canada: Hollywood [Canada.com via Slashdot]

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