Warner’s night vision goggles
p2pnet.net News:- In Britain, people at a new movie release who suddenly get a creepy feeling they’re being watched while they watch will be right.
“Military-style night-sights have been sent to every outlet in the country showing the new Harry Potter film, The Prisoner of Azkaban,” says a Guardian report here.
“Staff have been instructed to spend all two hours and 22 minutes of the film scanning the dark – for pirates making illegal copies.”
Apparently, distributor Warner Brothers was upset by an online epidemic “of poor-quality, grainy versions of the two previous Potter films”.
“Surreptitious recording from cinema seats, sometimes interrupted by the head of the person in front shifting and blocking the action, has become a serious menace, according to the industry,” the Guardian states, adding that Jamie Graham, manager of the Vue cinema at Cheshire Oaks, Wirral, “where the red monocle devices are ready for action,” says retribution will be swift.
Pirates will be, “hauled out of their seats and reported straight away to the police”.
Back in the US of A, this April Los Angeles police made the first arrests under a new law targeting pirates who use camcorders in cinemas. Ruben Centero Moreno was nailed after the projectionist spotted him through night vision goggles.
June 1st, 2004 at 9:07 pm
“Apparently, distributor Warner Brothers was upset by an online epidemic “of poor-quality, grainy versions of the two previous Potter films”.”
So if they were 1st rate DVD rips using only the best compression tools that would be okay, right?
June 1st, 2004 at 11:37 pm
jeez, wait until the first time an usher is sent in to apprehend a ‘criminal pirate’ who decides this 18 yr old aint going to apprehending anything but a fist to the face or the but end of a gun, or worse a bullet.
then we’ll see how the public reacts to the MPAA/RIAA charging civilians to do policing work for them….class action anyone????
June 2nd, 2004 at 5:36 am
i agree 100%. not everybody likes to comply when confronted.
June 7th, 2004 at 4:44 pm
as long as the quality of the film reflects on warner brothers in a good light they obviously don’t mind
LOL
yeah good point