Canadian movie recording
The Canadian government is considering a law to ban camcording movies shows in theaters. Not surprisingly, piracy advocates are unhappy. The first sentence I read about this is the funniest:
From p2pnet.com:
Can you castigate an entire nation for the ill deeds of a few? Hollywood says you can and so, apparently, does the current Canadian government.
Castigate? How will a law that criminalizes the recording of illegal copies of movies “castigate” the entire nation? How many people use a camcorder in movie theaters for legal reasons? How many people use a camcorder in a movie theater at all?
But wait, the author of the above quote states how it will:
I’d also suggest the techniques being used to apprehend the alleged criminals are likely to cause more trouble for the audience than the bad guys.
Sending ushers equipped with night vision goggles creeping down corridors trying to spot camcording criminals is far more likely to interfere with the audience viewing pleasures than to result in the capture of illicit copiers.
I’d say that the cause of the night-vision-equipped ushers were the illegal recorders. But this example of his is not a real, and piracy advocates are not trying to save movie-goers from Rainbow Six ushers. They want to prevent the passage of laws that will explicitely forbid this obvious method of violating the property rights of movie makers.
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