No laptops in the cinema!
p2pnet news view | P2P | Movies:- A significant number of movies — most? — which show up on the P2P networks originate in Hollywood as screeners, work prints and other associated ‘product’.
But through their MPAA, the major studios insist their problems centre on kids with camcorders of the kind made by Sony, one of the loudest complainers.
Nowadays, you can’t go to the cinema without fear of being hassled by an eager usher with night vision specs, or having staff rummage through your personal property looking for recording devices.
In Canada, a Montreal theatre owner was ordered to pay a woman $10,000 after an employee rifled through her handbag, said p2pnet, going on instead of a camcorder to be used for ‘pirating,’ the employee found only, ’smuggled snacks and birth control pills’.”
Now, things are escalating — in the UK, at least.
Jeremy Nicholas blogs he was refused access to a Cineworld theatre because he had a laptop in his bag, going on, “I was told it was a new policy to stop people recording the films. I pointed out that my laptop does not have the capability of recording a film. It does not have a camera on it for a start.”
“I have a few things to say to Cineworld,” he adds, among them »»»
1. If you treat your customers like this, they will go elsewhere.
2. There are many more efficient ways of recording a film than via the webcam on a laptop.
3. Many people carry a laptop or netbook these days. They will not all go straight home from work, some may come straight to the movies.
But, “The good news is after treating me like a a potential villain they let me in, and with my laptop,” he says.
Do you think the fact he’s a journalist and not an ordinary member of the public had anything to do with the change in attitude?
No need to stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
originate in Hollywood - Camcording Pirates versus Infra-red, September 23, 2009
p2pnet - Cinema search victim gets $10,000, June 1, 2009
Jeremy Nicholas - I was refused entry to a Cineworld cinema because I had a laptop with me, October 14, 2009
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