p2pnet - rss feed: West Virginia and ‘camera theft’
p2pnet.net News:- The new buzz-phrase is “camera theft”.
That’s when someone uses a cam-corder developed, made and sold by Sony, for example, to shoot a movie developed, made and sold by Sony, say, which then appears on one of the p2p nets currently under attack by the movie studio cartel, of which Sony is a founder-member.
“Camera theft” made its appearance in a quote from MPAA hack Todd Flournoy which is repeated in a post on West Virginia’s WOWK 13 TV web page.
It refers to a bill fed to West Virigina’s House of Delegates by the cartel’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and which has been digested and excreted to be passed to the state’s Senate.
It would, “define recording films at a theater with an audio-visual device as a felony,” says the story, going on to quote Flournoy as saying, “This kind of camera theft has been around for some time. It’s always been a problem. But bootleg copies used to be sold on the street. The quality was poor, and there was no easy means of distribution.”
But, “Today’s cameras are digital,” WOWK 13 continues.
“They’re smaller. They have better line-of-sight. For high-quality sound, they can connect to outlets usually reserved for patrons with hearing disabilities. They can be clipped to a theater seat, where they record silently without movement.”
Thus, “If you would record a movie Friday night, it could be on the streets in New York the next day and in China by Monday,” Flournoy says. “It’s that quick. … And these copies look professional. They cost a couple of bucks, and the quality is great. Some of these DVDs are amazing.”
And so they should be.
Makers - such as Sony - have spent a fortune developing them.
“So far, 21 states have passed laws concerning anti-piracy,” says the story. “The MPAA is lobbying 18 others, including West Virginia, this year.”
Interestingly, Flournoy says the MPAA is trying to come up with a kind of DRMÂ which would allow audiences, but not cam-corders, to see a movie.
(And you know what happens to DRMÂ ; )
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WOWK 13 TV - State Cracks Down on Film Piracy, March 17, 2005
March 18th, 2005 at 7:02 pm
Well it certainly sounds better than Jack Valenti’s “Analog hole”. No they have the public beleiving that this is about stealing cameras, not recording movies.
March 21st, 2005 at 2:53 pm
The name camera theft DOES make it sound like the theft of actual cameras which is totally wrong and dilutes their ‘important’ message written by the companies that fund them now and when after they retire (very well compensated dinner speeches!)
Now you know why they are in government and not marketing on Madison Ave.
They just don’t have a clue but they get the big bucks one way or the other.