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California Makes Recording in Cinema a Crime
Maharet writes "According to this article in the Sacramento Bee, recording devices will be outlawed and you will be able to make a citizen's arrest if you observe someone recording a movie. I don't advocate piracy, but this just looks to me like industry pressure (although the MPAA, et. al. are not mentioned). What if my cellphone has a camera? My favorite quote from an LA city attorney: 'If you carry one of these into a movie theater, you have to ask yourself, "Do I feel lucky?"'"
...is there anything coming out of Hollywood that is worth recording? Well...okay...pr0n...
it looks like it's going to be a lot easier to get those idiots with their cellphones on in theaters forcibly removed ;)
And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
I guess all the movie pirates in CA will have to drive to Oregon and Nevada to record movies. darn. Drive-ins are always good.
---- "Excuse me. Where's the children's gun section?"
It's only because...
In Aahnold's Calleefoneeah, tha cinema should record yoo!
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
Then you should be taken out of the theater immediately for bringing a cell phone in! This is a law meant to slow down piracy that actually makes sense for once. Bravo
Thank goodness eDonkey won't be flooded with these crappy versions of movies anymore. Straight to DVD Screener rip, baby!
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
I know what you're thinking. Did he use up six tapes or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a Canon XL-1 S, the most powerful camcorder in the world, and would film your head nice and clean, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?
When I was a kid I actually snuck a tape recorder into the theatre with me under my winter coat. Of course, back in 1977 there weren't too many other options.
It wasn't a microcassette recorder either - it was the BIG honking black Radio Shack model - the one that doubled as a data storage unit for the TRS-80. Amazing I got away with that.
Years later I could still recite pretty much the whole movie by heart. Thank God for those T-120 tapes!
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
Fortunately, most movies don't require a brain so I won't be missing anything by not taking it into a theater.
Remembering is copying. Copying is theft.
... the reports we've seen here in the past seem to indicate the overwhelming majority of pirated movies come from 'insiders' who have access to it in production/editing/promotion, wouldn't the logical extension of this to be prohibit all camera's on movie sets? Now i realize that kind of defeats the prupose of a 'visual' medium, but hey, the **AA has said repeatedly we need to be tougher on piracy. we will all have to make sacrafices...
we're too lazy to complain
Rented cops with guns in Ca theatres trolling for cell phones. Damn, I think California just might return to those good old wild west days yet. Watching the audience will be as interesting as watching the movie...
Cell Phone } baling, baling, baling...
Rent-a-cop w/ gun } blam, blam, blam...
Innocent bystander } shriek! faint.
dewd, pass me the popcorn, this is getting intense.
Here's my favorite comeback to citizen's arrest - Can you prove that you're a citizen?
This is California we're talking about after all...
-B
Oh, wait...
One thing I do when I go to a movie is to read on my PDA before it starts.
If you are not watching the ads at the beginning of the move YOU ARE STEALING. We'll just have to strap you down and tape your eyes open.
I think that says it all.
I couldn't help notice you mispelled, "jubilant applause" as "shriek! faint."
HTH HAND