UK bid to foil p2p ‘pirates’
p2p news / p2pnet: In addition to being spied on by ushers with military style night vision goggles and NATO bounty hunters, UK film viewers may soon experience a shadowy figure creeping furtively down cinema rows.
That’s because Hollywood’s UK anti-p2p unit Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) says it’s hiring a Private Dick to foil people who use camcorders to make DIY flics.
The investigator, an ex-cop, “will train cinema staff and examine incidents where recording equipment has been used in cinemas,” says the BBC.
The new Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, which has its premiere tonight in London, will be available to the public by Thursday, the BBC has FAST spokesman Raymond Leinster predicting.
But he got that wrong. Dead wrong, in fact. The movie is already available, in Spanish and English, among other languages. And it’s only Tuesday.
“Fact says the new investigator will educate cinema staff on how to detect people using digital camcorders, and advise them on how to disrupt the recording,” adds the story.
Digg this.
Also See:
spied on – MPAA nails camcorder ‘pirates’, June 4, 2004
bounty hunters – MPAA vs Kids with Camcorders, March 13, 2006
BBC – Cinema detective to tackle piracy, July 3, 2006
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July 4th, 2006 at 1:39 am
Does anyone believe these cinema staff will be paid any extra for all these extra duties they’re being ‘asked’ to perform on top of their usual duties?
Yeah, i doubt it too.
July 4th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
It is all an effort to eradicate low quality piract, the camcorder variety.
This is good for high quality dvd copy piracy.
Make me wonder in whose side the movie studios are. Certainly not on their own side.