Film piracy heads north

When Hollywood execs get together to bemoan the roughly $20 billion a year they lose through international movie piracy, they tend to round up the usual suspects: countries like China, Russia and India. Bob Strauss in the Daily News.

But a hearing Monday sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman, D-Van Nuys, flushed out a new villain in the costly international piracy trade: Canada.

In fact, the two-hour-plus hearing flowed on a decidedly Blame Canada undercurrent.

"We expect China to act like a potential enemy and adversary of the United States," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach. "We don't expect that from Canada. It's so disturbing to know that Canada's becoming the transshipment depot for counterfeited goods from China."