p2pnet.net News:- Spidey 2 and F911 seem to be the hottest Hollywood properties at the moment. But the only thing they have in common is: they’re both box-office record breakers.

Otherwise:

Spidey is pure fantasy
Fahrenheit 9/11 is a documentary

Spider-Man 2 distributor Sony will sue anyone who posts the movie online – if it can find them
Moore says of F911, Post Away, as long as you don’t do it for profit

Moore isn’t on record as saying anything about the means by which his movie might appear online
A 16-year-old in California was arrested after a projectionist with night vision goggles spotted the teenager using a camcorder during a Spiedy 2 showing and could now be labelled a ‘criminal’.

The LAPD arrested him and took him to Devonshire Division for 10 hours in Adult Prison Cells and then to Juvenile Hall for arraigment, said a p2pnet reader. “Poor Little Guy got the Abu Garaib Treatment. For being stupid.”

The Feinstein / Cornyn Artists’ Rights and Theft Prevention Act (S. 1932) demands new federal crimes for the unauthorized recording of movies in cinemas or other venues, and for “other acts relating to copyright infringement”.

As things are at the moment, under some current state and local laws, cinema owners or employees who ‘arrest’ someone they suspect is using a camcorder to copy a movie could be liable in criminal or civil actions.

However, if Feinstein and Cornyn get their way, theater owners and employees would be legally able to ‘detain’ anyone they thought was trying to illegally record a movie with complete immunity from any civil or criminal liability that resulted from the ‘detention’.

The (ART Act) carries up to $250,000 in fines, three years in jail for first time ‘offenders,’ five years if they’re caught distributing for profit and 10 years inside for repeat offenders.

Compare this to the fact that if you assault someone with a dangerous weapon, the worst that can happen is that you could wind up in a state jail for up to five years, or be fined not more than $1,000; or, imprisonment in jail or a ‘house of correction’ for no more than two-and-a-half years.

Copying a movie = $250,000 and 10 years

Assault and battery with a dangerous weapon = $1,000 and five years

Something is wrong with those equations.

p2pnet readers have a few thoughts on the subject:

Cinema goer: I wonder how many Projectionists took the goggles home. And how many will be caught using those to look down chicks tops and up skirts during Movies … All Movie goers should be concerned that $15.00 an hour projectionists now have night vision goggles to play with (on every teenage boys wish list). Movie theater staff could be viewing people inappropriately in a darken movie theater.

Cinema projectionist: You should see the fun stuff we see with our goggles. They distributed them about 6 months ago. The late night showings are the best.

Perhaps a few people should bring Camcorders to the show – and NOT record – but rather watch your home movies on the camcorder while the show is on. I wonder if the night vision goggles can tell the difference between someone recording a movie and someone watching home movies on the screen on their camcorder. I wonder if using a gameboy during a movie would have the same effect?

Bloody good idea! Make sure they aren’t loaded and that there are no batteries and then just mess with them in as suspicious a manner as you can manage.

Its ok to have batteries and even a tape … just make sure that the unit is not recording and your ok.. the minute they fuck with you its lawsuit time …. and in Cali that means suing the Movie Theaters and the Projectionist Union.

The ideal situation is to have hundreds of moviegoers all bring toy cameras – or anything that looks like a camcorder through nightvision lens. Then let them try to pick out any real ones. At the same time the actual camcorder user will be using some type of disguised spy camera – maybe something like a pen-on-the-ear camera. So while all the decoys get dragged away, the real culprit is safely recording away.

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