Government Releases Anti-Camcording Bill

The Canadian government has introduced legislation into the House of Commons to criminalize camcording movies. The Bill's introduction caps an intense lobbying effort from Hollywood studios and US government officials that culminated in a personal meeting between California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger and Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Although camcording Hollywood films is already against the law, (the act infringes copyright and commercial-scale piracy operations violate the Copyright Act's criminal provisions), the Bill creates new criminal consequences for the act. Bill C59, An Act to amend the Criminal Code Michael Geist, "The Power of Lobbying: How Hollywood Got A Movie Piracy Bill"