Every major study around shows that piracy generation within the US is on a completely different level then it is in Canada and the rest of the world. Where do you think all those DVD Screeners come from? Those leaked copies of games weeks before launch, last I checked, we don't have many pressing companies or places that get demonstration copies. Most leaked content happens during production, or while its pimped around to reviewers and executives, 99.9999% of the time NOT within Canadian borders.

Instead of slapping canadians who download these leaked software (Pretty much as easily as an American can), why not stop them at the source? A Pirate will rarely buy software whether they can get it or not.

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"If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy."

-Barbara Amiel

Come on Canadians, maybe some piracy laws in the US are ridiculous, but rampant piracy does hurt the video game industry and all the US government is saying is, "could you maybe just do a little bit to help stop it?" Nobody is trying to control your government and pirating games is not something you should be proud of.

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But seriously... Canada is so laid-back. How can a country that graces us with ice hockey and great beer really be pirates?

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Damn you America! Traumatizing the innocent yet again!

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Its defined up here in Canada as the same as taking it home from the library. You're allowed to pirate whatever the hell you want, as long as you don't share it. This personally works for me, because pirating a game

a) Does not get you the booklet

b) Does not get you the case

c) Does not impress friends or really anyone when you show people a wall of stolen marker-labelled gamez that you downloaded

Just like why I still buy books, when I could easily just keep taking them from the library. Or how I've probably spent about 3-5 grand on my 360 collection so far, but could have probably gone down to that mall in Toronto to get my console modded, enabling me to have saved a lot of money.

Thats not to say I never download games. I do. I pirate quite a bit of shit. But 70 percent of the time, I go out and buy what I just pirated. That other 30 percent is for games that the demo didn't do the game justice, or there IS no demo (in the case of DS games) and I'm not just gonna go paying people for a copy of their intellectual property if it turns out its total trash and I'm never going to play it again.

eg. Sometimes, these demos serve as nothing but smoke and mirrors for what the game is like. Thats not cool at all.

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I really hate American trade groups, lobbyists and their ilk trying to force the US's laws upon us. It's pointless and it's an insult to our sovereign right to govern ourselves.

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Just watch out for Scott. He's a dick.

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