{"id":1851,"date":"2007-01-26T16:58:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T21:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2007-01-26T16:58:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T21:58:36","slug":"20th-century-fox-blame-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/20th-century-fox-blame-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Century Fox: Blame Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can it be true?<\/p>\n<p>Are 50% of the world&#8217;s pirated movies coming (not movies featuring pirates) from Canada?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/print\/ca.html\">A nation of only 33 million people obviously very busy, camcorder obcesssed people (nearly 18% of whom are under 14 years old)?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/globaltv\/national\/story.html?id=b3dea202-82da-4ad9-b6f8-277923bc1f6b\">Canada.com reports that being bilingual is one thing that makes Canada a pirate hot spot (even though &#8220;pirate&#8221; and &#8220;hot spot&#8221; are not terms I&#8217;d associate with Canada)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As much as 50 per cent of the world&#8217;s pirated movies come from Canada, prompting the film industry to threaten to delay the release of new titles in this country.<\/p>\n<p>According to an investigation by Twentieth Century Fox, most of the illegal recording, or &#8220;camcording,&#8221; is taking place in Montreal movie houses, taking advantage of bilingual releases and lax copyright laws.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can it be true? Are 50% of the world&#8217;s pirated movies coming (not movies featuring pirates) from Canada? A nation of only 33 million people obviously very busy, camcorder obcesssed people (nearly 18% of whom are under 14 years old)? Canada.com reports that being bilingual is one thing that makes Canada a pirate hot spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}