Ninety percent of illegal DVDs being sold are the result of a camcorder recording straight off a cinema screen, Serge Corriveau of the Canadian Motion Picture Distribution Association told Variety.
He said 40 percent to 50 percent of the camcorded DVDs are made in Montreal. Because movies are released in French and English in Montreal, it gives pirates a leg up on the European market, Corriveau said.
While the duplication is done in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver have become major players in the bootleg black market.
