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defrogITEM [via BoingBoing]: A 22-year-old Chicago woman is arrested and charged with a felony after taping four minutes of New Moon during her sister's surprise 29th birthday party at the Muvico 18 Rosemont.
The woman – who was using a digital still camera with a video function that can only take short clips, not a full-on camcorder – spent two nights in jail and faces up to three years in prison.
Muvico says it’s just obeying the law and doing its job:
Because OBVIOUSLY there is no difference between taping an entire film and selling it or uploading it on the web, and taping a few crappy clips during a birthday party in a movie theatre, and even if there is, you can’t expect a theatre manager to tell the difference. He’s NOT QUALIFIED. The movie industry loses billions of dollars that way, and then it goes out of business and no more sparkly vampire movies for YOU, Little Miss Fuck Copyright I Wanna Steal Movies On My Camera Cos I’m Selfish And Have No Respect For Authority.
And the MPAA wonders where people get the idea that they’re humorless greedy killjoys.
Who’s the pirate here,
This is dF
The woman – who was using a digital still camera with a video function that can only take short clips, not a full-on camcorder – spent two nights in jail and faces up to three years in prison.
Muvico says it’s just obeying the law and doing its job:
In order to combat the increasing theft of copyrighted films, the motion picture industry has encouraged theater owners to adopt a "zero-tolerance" policy prohibiting the video or audio recording of any portion of a movie. Specifically, theater managers are instructed to alert law enforcement authorities whenever they suspect illegal activity. Theater managers have neither the expertise nor the authority to decide whether a crime has been committed.
Because OBVIOUSLY there is no difference between taping an entire film and selling it or uploading it on the web, and taping a few crappy clips during a birthday party in a movie theatre, and even if there is, you can’t expect a theatre manager to tell the difference. He’s NOT QUALIFIED. The movie industry loses billions of dollars that way, and then it goes out of business and no more sparkly vampire movies for YOU, Little Miss Fuck Copyright I Wanna Steal Movies On My Camera Cos I’m Selfish And Have No Respect For Authority.
And the MPAA wonders where people get the idea that they’re humorless greedy killjoys.
Who’s the pirate here,
This is dF
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on 2009-12-07 02:40 pm (UTC)