Industry committee  I think there really is a public interest at stake. That is the reason we feel government should be involved in this issue.

Industry committee  I think that there would be problems with enforcing such measures. Who would determine the amounts of the fines? Who is going to go after these criminals, or the individual?

Industry committee  We should, but the problem is resources I think to a large extent. The RCMP and the border agency don't have the resources currently to do it. We want to go after the larger-scale criminals who are perpetrating this behaviour on a regular basis and are profiting tremendously from

Industry committee  The only other thing they could conceivably be used for is if you had a video game console from Asia, for example, and you wanted to play video games from another jurisdiction on them, you could technically use a mod chip to circumvent those protections. Other than that, there is

Industry committee  I can tell you anecdotally. I don't represent the movie industry, but I work closely with my colleagues in that industry, because we find that often where pirated movies are sold, pirated video games are sold. I very much have heard stories to that effect, and that Montreal is

Industry committee  Yes, absolutely.

Industry committee  Yes, absolutely. Thank you for that question. Certainly hard-goods piracy is a huge problem for us now. Downloading is going to become an even greater problem for us in the future. We have been a little bit saved from a lot of the downloading problems--or we were until fairly re

Industry committee  A short answer? Yes.

Industry committee  I'm sorry, can you repeat the last part of the question?

Industry committee  Absolutely. We can take lessons from a number of countries around the world that have already grappled with a lot of these very complex issues. I know the EU has a border model that is worth looking at, as does the United States, the U.K.... We can learn a number of lessons fro

Industry committee  No, absolutely not. I think to suggest it's too complicated so let's just not deal with it is, frankly, a scary proposition. You think about our economy. Intellectual property is the future of our economy, plain and simple. These issues are not necessarily easy to solve, but they

Industry committee  On the first part of your question, which I've forgotten now.... I'm sorry, I had something very—

Industry committee  Yes. I would say that organized crime is involved. We have evidence to that effect. But we also see smaller operators running burning operations, for example, out of a storefront. So you definitely see both. A report by the RCMP recently indicated that 90% of the counterfeits in

Industry committee  I'll answer it in two parts. I think it would be extremely helpful for our industry in terms of even the civil actions we take on a regular basis. I think what would especially have an impact would be to couple those legislative changes with additional resources for the RCMP.

Industry committee  Yes, we actually had our private investigators visit a number of specialty retail stores that sort of sell exclusively entertainment software products--often they also sell DVDs--in different malls and places like that across the country. And we found, in fact, that 20% to 30% we