Now the MPAA is going after people taping movies in theatres with CELL PHONES?!

[thewayne]

With the supposed installation of automatic detection equipment in theatres that will detect a camera in use, I think someone needs to come out with a line of baseball caps and lapel jewelry that consists of a CCD chip behind glass.

Who would be interested in a cell phone video of The Simpsons? The quality is so crappy as to be totally unwatchable. Hollywood just can't get it through their heads that the quality pirated copies are coming from leaked screeners and from loose security in DVD pressing plants. There are lots of places in the chain for copies to leak, instead they're wasting time and law enforcement resources on a girl who taped 20 seconds of Transformers to show her little brother.

*sigh* SPACE ALIENS, TAKE US NOW!

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/news/2007/08/cellphone_piracy

Comments

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

*snort*


My cell phone takes about 20 seconds of video in one shot, and the quality on it is so crappy I wouldn't WANT to spread it around.

it's like places that don't allow camera phones into their facility because OMG what if someone steals our technology based off a grainy cell phone photo!

*rolls eyes* it's getting ridiculous.

[zentraedi-shep.livejournal.com]

"[...] a portion or portion thereof [...]"

Pardon me, but what is a protion of a portion of a movie? About 2 seconds?
The cam in my mobile is a 1.3 Mpx digicam... Hell, I cannot even take clear photos of anything during sundown, not to speak of even darker lighting conditions.
Btw. most filmed copies of movies are filmed by projectionists, as can most times be seen by the angle of the cam. I cannot remmeber that one of them was ever arrested for filming a movie off the screen...

[ateji.livejournal.com]

Projectionists are in an excellent place for it, by why does the management not notice (ignoring that they might be in on it)? o_o *daughter of a projectionist*

[silveradept]

Oy. I think that they have better things to do with their time and money. Like, perhaps, make a movie that people would actually want to see in theaters?