A Hollywood nightmare
Here’s bad news for the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and its boss, Jack Valenti.
California and Ohio only recently introduced legislation making it illegal for people to take camcorders into movie theatres. And the studios would dearly like to see similar ruling introduced across the US.
That’s because Valenti’s failed war on screeners notwithstanding, most of the movies that wind up on p2p file sharing networks are copied on camcorders during perfomances.
However, says an Associated Press report here, thin was in at Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show.
And that included a digital camcorder roughly the size of a Pez dispenser from Philips, complete with a 1.5-gigabyte hard drive able store up to 24 minutes of video.
During the same show Toshiba introduced a teeny hardrive.
Plug a video recorder such as Philips’ into a drive such as Toshiba’s and you’ve got a camcorder that’ll give Hollywood nightmares.
