Comments on: Canadian camcording campaign

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:10:51 +0000

I regularly have my mobile phone with me when I watch a film at the cinema. It’s quite an old Sony Ericcson handset now, but it has a decent 2 Megapixel still camera and a webcam-like (i.e. rather poor) video record function. Once, I even took a photo of the FACT notice (Federation Against Copyright Theft, which tries to convince people in the UK that downloading a film illegally is somehow “funding terrorism”, despite the fact that no-one asks for money. They used to use a crap video featuring a fat Satan character _branding_ things with hot iron — which is not unlike the annoying Carlton Screen Advertising footage we’re often forced to watch even after paying over Â£6 for a ticket). Obviously that’s “illegal”, but it was a joke to myself and I deleted it afterwards. Besides, I could’ve saved it for future reference, surely?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:02:20 +0000

Sure…. Name ten good legitimate reasons someone would walk into a movie theatre with a video camera?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:26:09 +0000

I don’t know how the CMPDA acts, but the MPAA is far from “sitting on the sidelines.” The MPAA not only announced its own adoption of the RIAA’s litigation program in 2004, albeit more focused on sending DMCA takedown requests to BitTorrent indexers and trackers than individuals, but is also at the forefront at attempting to brainwash our children in schools and scout troops with their anti-piracy agenda. They may be just a little more level-headed than the RIAA, considering that the organization is at least willing to use BitTorrent technology to transfer future movie content directly from the studios, but not by much.