This is an article in today's Globe and Mail about movie pirating in Canada, more specifically about the practice of going into a theatre and recording the movie with a camera. Has anyone ever seen one of these things? I can't imagine the quality would be very good if it's filmed by some guy sitting in the front row with a camera poking out of his shirt.
Then he threatened to do something unprecedented in Canadian distribution history: Fox could stop sending copies of all its films to Cineplex Entertainment's 130 movie houses, with close to 1,300 screens. Or, Fox might decide to delay the Canadian release of popular films until a few weeks after their U.S. release.
In the letter, Snyder fumed that his company had discerned that, at one point during 2006, Canadian theatres were the source for nearly 50 per cent of illegal camcords across the globe:
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