Over the past year, Canadians have faced a barrage of claims painting Canada as a “piracy haven.” This video - the second in my collaboration with Daniel Albahary - moves beyond the headlines to demonstrate how the claims do not tell the whole story.

This was also mentioned on BoingBoing:

Copyfighting law prof Michael Geist and filmmaker Daniel Albahary have put together a great short film called “Putting Canadian ‘Piracy’ in Perspective.” It’s a great, systematic debunking of of the claims that Canada is a haven for piracy, demonstrating that these claims are just scare-tactics from American corporate and government interests looking to change Canadian law to favor American firms to the detriment of the Canadian public.

And in other piracy news here was yet another example of piracy not hurting sale:
Amazingly, Downloadability Of Michael Moore’s Film Didn’t Appear To Hurt Box Office - TechDirt

Related posts:

1. Study: Piracy is Caused by Poor Choice
2. Ipod Levy May Yet Face The Music - Michael Geist
3. Two wrongs dont make a right… but it’s a start
4. Piracy Works for Indie Acts
5. “If you know the release date…it’s not an indie”

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