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A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of a sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he starts searching for the source.

He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827. Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it is being played backward! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with him.

By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed. This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it is being played backward.

Curious, the men agree to consult a music scholar. When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is playing, again backward. The expert notices that the symphonies are being played in the reverse order in which they were composed, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th. �����

By the next day the word has spread and a throng has gathered around the grave. They are all listening to the Second Symphony being played backward. �����

Just then the graveyard's caretaker ambles up to the group. Someone in the crowd asks him if he has an explanation for the music. �����

"Oh, it's nothing to worry about" says the caretaker. "He's just decomposing!"

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The Hourglass

Three weeks after Myra's late husband's cremation Doris went to visit her sister Myra. While they were having a cup of tea by the coal fire; Doris asked her sister, "Why do you keep on turning that hourglass?"

Myra retorted, "Bill's ashes are inside the hourglass. I keep on turning it because the lazy oaf wouldn't work while he was alive, so I'm making him work now!!

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The Sensitive Guy

Steve, Bob and Jeff are working on a very high scaffolding. Suddenly, Steve falls off. He is killed instantaneously. After the ambulance leaves with Steve's body, Bob and Jeff realize they'll have to inform his wife.

Bob says he's good at this sort of sensitive stuff, so he volunteers to do the job.

After two hours he returns, carrying a large pizza. "So did you tell her?" asks Jeff.

"Yep", replies Bob.

"Say, where did you get the pizza?"

Bob informs Jeff. "She bought it for me."

"WHAT??" exclaims Jeff, "you just told her her husband died and she bought you a pizza?"

"Sure," Bob says.

"WHY?" asks Jeff.

"Well," Bob continues, "when she answered the door, I asked her, 'are you Steve's widow?' 'Widow?', she said, 'no, no, you're mistaken, I'm not a widow!' So I said: "I'll bet you a pizza you ARE!'"

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who owns Canada ? >>>>Bush administration and Hollywood<<<<






Canada caves in to Hollywood

p2pnet.net news:- Stephen Harper's Conservatives have all but agreed to Hollywood's contention that Canada is responsible for the vast majority of illegal camcorded copies of movies which show up on the p2p networks and street corners around the world.

Following pressure from Hollywood, with the Bush administration in lock-step behind it, the federal government plans to introduce legislation which will make it a crime to use handheld cameras to copy movies in cinemas, says the Ottawa Citizen.

"Pressure from the film industry has been mounting for months, culminating this week with Warner Bros. film studio announcing it will cancel its sneak preview screenings in Canada, starting with this summer's releases of Ocean's Thirteen and the next Harry Potter film," says the story.

The government was until recently "cool" to a Criminal Code crackdown, but it, "now hopes to move a bill quickly through the parliamentary process," according to a government insider.

Another anonymous spokesperson, this time from Warner Bros, said in the past 18 months, "70 per cent of the studio's bootlegged movies originated in Canada," states the item.

He didn't say how the number was compiled. However, as Canadian Net expert Michael Geist said recently, when Hollywood launched its war against Canada, the camcording piracy figure was 50%. But, "Over the weeks that followed, industry sources began altering that number, with suggestions that the figure was actually 20 percent, 23 percent, 30 percent, or 40 percent".

What are the MPAA members smoking?

Your "friendly neighborhood Canadian supposedly accounts for 7 out of every 10 pirated movies," said Cinema Blend's Stuart Wood, going on, "Well in a new report by the MPAA, they also claim that New York is responsible for 40% of world piracy. Four out of every ten pirated movies."

How, Wood wonders, can you have 110% of anything?

And, "When you consider other US cities and places like China, Malaysia, UK, the rest of Europe etc etc etc aren't even included in these statistics, you start to wonder just what the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) members smoke while watching movies?" - he says. "Is the western world in total responsible for 231 out of every 10 pirated DVDs???"

"One would hope that government policy would be dictated by facts rather than by lobbying," the Ottawa Citizen quotes Geist as saying. "We've got all these numbers out there about Canada being this piracy haven and we've never had any sort of independent, verifiable data to support that."

According to the MPAA, the US, "is still the top source of pirated movies," says the story, and, "The notion that somehow stepping up the penalties against camcording will solve this issue is completely undermined by the experience in the United States, where there are laws, but the U.S. is the largest source of camcorded movies in the world and it is also experiencing a proliferation," states Geist.

77% of these samples appear to have been leaked by industry insiders

Judging by the tremendous fuss suddenly kicked up by Warner, et al, the flood of flicks must be a recent development, one would think.

But that's not the case at all. And nor are camcording pirates the principal villains. Of a total of 285 movies researchers sampled on the p2p networks, 77% were leaked by industry 'insiders,' says a 2003 AT&T Labs report.

It states:

We developed a data set of 312 popularmovies and located one or more samples of 183 of these movies on file sharing networks, for a total of 285 movie samples. 77% of these samples appear to have been leaked by industry insiders. Most of our samples appeared on file sharing networks prior to their official consumer DVD release date. Indeed, of the movies that had been released on DVD as of the time of our study, only 5% first appeared after their DVD release date on a web site that indexes file sharing networks, indicating that consumer DVD copying currently represents a relatively minor factor compared with insider leaks.

"There are so many articles about this issue pointing to made-up numbers about the amount of camcording that happens, how much of it is Canadian, and how much comes out of Montreal," says Digital Copyright Canada's Russell McOrmond, continuing:

To be honest, I like the idea of having a specialized bill to deal with this issue so that it can be separated from the larger set of copyright revision issues.

While I don't like my taxpayer money going to redirecting law enforcement from more important criminal activity, I think that having camcordering be clearly unlawful is appropriate. The misdirection of tax money is a minor problem in my mind compared to the infringement of users and IT property rights proposed in other copyright revision.

Charlie Angus is quoted in Variety and The Edmonton Sun as suggesting that the only way to really solve this problem is to monetize the system, rather than trying to rely on enforcement. The article suggests that many people want the Copyright act modernized, but doesn't at all document the fact that different people want it changed in different directions (IE: Recording industry wanting to turn back the clock, etc).

Meanwhile, Warner Bros will, "rethink its cancellation of early promotional screening and 'sneak peaks' if the federal government comes up with a new law," says the Ottawa Citizen.

Jon Newton - p2pnet

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Also See:
illegal camcorded copies - Waltzing pirates in bulky clothing, May 10, 2007
Ottawa Citizen - Government plans new movie piracy law, May 11, 2007
altering that number - Hollywood 'Pirate Canada' claims, May 11, 2007
Cinema Blend - MPAA Lies About Movie Piracy!, May 10, 2007
AT&T Labs report - Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process, September 13, 2003
Digital Copyright Canada - Canada cracks down on camcorders? Best to have a special bill on this..., May 11, 2007
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I see they are cooking numbers again for there benefit.....

Originally posted by ireland:

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Hollywood, smoking, movies, teens





p2pnet.net news:- A mandatory R rating for smoking in movies would not "further the specific goal of providing information to parents on this issue".

'R' means a movie has a Restricted rating, which in turn means anyone under 17 who wants to see it is supposed to have a parent or adult guardian with him or her.

Who made the statement? A Big Tobacco spokesman?

MPAA boss Dan Glickman.

The percentage of films, "that included even a fleeting glimpse of smoking" declined from 60 per cent to 52 per cent between July 2004 and July 2006," Canadian Press has Glickman saying.

And, "Descriptions on sex, violence and language that accompany movie ratings now will include such phrases as "glamorized smoking" or "pervasive smoking," Glickman said.

That should do it.

Meanwhile, " Teenagers are significantly more likely to start smoking if they watch movies featuring stars who smoke cigarettes, and teens whose parents don't smoke are the most likely to be swayed by actors lighting up onscreen," said The Washington Post in 2003.

It was quoting an article in Britain's The Lancet medical journal from June 10, 2003

"Smoking in movies is responsible for addicting 1,080 U.S. adolescents to tobacco every day, 340 of whom will die prematurely as a result," it stated.

Old stuff?

"Two new studies by Dartmouth Medical School pediatrician researchers underscore the significant impact that movies have in influencing teens to smoke," says Science Daily.

"The studies show that movies deliver billions of smoking impressions to American teens; and that even teens outside the U.S. are affected by smoking images in films distributed internationally by American studios."

"Exposure to Movie Smoking Among US Adolescents Aged 10 to 14 Years: A Population Estimate" studied a "nationally representative sample of 6,522 U.S. adolescents aged 10-14 years," and assessed their exposure to 534 popular contemporary box-office hits, says the story, going on:

Three out of four movies (74%) studied contained smoking, for a total of 3,830 smoking images. Based on the number of U.S. adolescents seeing each movie and the smoking contained in each, the researchers estimated that these movies delivered 13.9 billion gross smoking impressions.

Sixty one percent of these impressions were delivered by youth-rated movies and, " Of the group of movies surveyed, some 30 of the movies delivered more than 100 million smoking impressions each. Many of these high-impact movies were rated PG-13."

The, "apparently free delivery of star smoking to a young teen population is a tobacco marketer's dream," Science Daily has co-author Dr James Sargent stating.

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Also See:
Canadian Press - U.S. board makes smoking a bigger factor in assigning film ratings, May 11, 2007
The Washington Post - Study: Teens Who See Smoking in Movies More Likely to Light Up, June 10, 2003
Science Daily - US Movies Expose Youth To Billions Of Smoking Images, May 9, 2007


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I know hollywood has issue with reality but brain washing kids against diffrances is starting to get insane....