This is simply a PR move to "encourage" Parliament to pass legislation that mirrors the draconian US DMCA act. The US movie and recording industry is essentially saying, "Get your act together and do it our way, or nasty things will happen." Hopefully, our MPs are smart enough to ignore them.
james, 2007-05-05 12:15:26

Hrrmph! I smell 'bacon' as in Canadian Bacon(the movie)...The Americans always have to blame someone!

It costs me a Minimum of $20 to go see 1 movie at the theater! How about not paying the stars 20+ mil per movie and lowering the price of a movie?

Carol, 2007-01-24 17:24:05

Who cares what the Movie Studios or the Record Companies do for that matter. Most of what they put out isn't worth the time to go to a theatre or even download it. There is so much garbage being put out by these companies. There always has been. They've been able to get away with it up till now because there were never the types of options available to the consumer as there are now. The funny thing is, the same companies screaming about pirating are the same ones that developed and SELL this technology to the public! If not them directly then it's the Parent company or another within that group. The problem isn't with Pirating. It's with the total cost of the product. Actors get paid way too much money, Studio Execs get paid way too much, Directors, producers etc!! Clean up your own crap before you come after the people that have supported your garbage for decades already!
C McPhedran, 2007-01-24 17:10:58

Do they honestly think that delaying a movie's release date will stop some yahoo who is too cheap to pay to get into a movie theater from getting his hands on a bootlegged DVD? I don't know how anyone can watch these shot-in-theater DVD's. Someone gave me one once, I got about 30 seconds in, couldn't see a damn thing. I shut it off and threw the disc in the trash where it belongs.
Joe, 2007-01-24 15:48:12

It won't snuff bootlegging out, but it should slow it down a bit. The studio would have to do the same thing in a lot of countries, however.
PKT, 2007-01-24 13:14:19

A delay will not put an end to bootlegging. Lowering the prices at the box office would have an effect or offering the movies at the time of release for home viewing. Why pay $20 to watch a movie in a crowded theater when I have a top of the line HDTV and sound system at home with a lazy boy in front of it? Bottom line is people are having more options opened to them how to watch their entertainment and Hollywood is lagging behind on providing these options for us to us.
Luke MacDougll, 2007-01-24 12:12:22