Industry committee  Would you agree that those numbers tend to be based on the full market value or full consumer price for each product that was pirated?

Industry committee  Understood. Have we done a lot of studying of why people pirate in the first place?

Industry committee  But in the case of content, at least in the Canadian example.... We're hearing that Canada has a higher rate of piracy than other countries, but it also has, I heard somebody say, a lower rate of consumer-available content. There's a lot of Canadian-made content that you can't ge

Industry committee  Thank you.

Industry committee  I've been in technology long enough to know that there's no system that lasts forever in technology, so when something comes along that inevitably makes blockchain obsolete, or we discover that it isn't actually secure after all and there's some major vulnerability in the whole a

Industry committee  I appreciate that, but in the same vein, in a totally decentralized environment, which is what you're talking about being available as an option, someone has to hold the data somewhere. If everybody says somebody else is holding it, then sooner or later, nobody's holding it and t

Industry committee  You mentioned Bitcoin, that's an interesting point. We know Bitcoin is pretty popular now for fraud and theft on the Internet and so forth: We've lock up your computer and give us a Bitcoin or we won't unlock it. Using blockchain, is this something that's going to help or hurt th

Industry committee  Thank you. One of the great frustrations I have in my life is that my great-grandfather, Alphonse Paré, spoke English, French, Cree and Ojibwa and didn't pass that knowledge on to the next generations. That frustrates me greatly. For me to hear that the vast majority of so-call

Industry committee  Thank you. I don't want to end there, because it's really interesting, but I do want to ask a few other questions of other people as well. Mr. Blackfield, you mentioned problems of scalability with blockchain. Artist resales especially is something that takes place over an infi

Industry committee  You mentioned FairPlay. I guess it boils down to this question: Should companies be allowed to be vertically integrated into the media market?

Industry committee  Should companies be allowed to be vertically in—

Industry committee  Does vertical integration of the media market pose a threat to...?

Industry committee  I appreciate it. Dan is going to cut me off. Thank you very much.

Industry committee  I was going to go to you, Mr. Lipkus, on the question of why you'd want your toy labels protected for 70 years However, before I get to that, I'm going to let Mr. Lametti ask a quick question.

Industry committee  Thank you. I have questions for everybody, but I'll go to the more interesting ones right now. You both talked about replacing Crown copyright, or getting rid of it altogether, which is, I think, a very poorly known subject for most people. Can you briefly explain how you unde