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Ohio Also Passes Law Against Recording In Cinema
madmancarman writes "Following California's lead, Ohio has also passed a law making recording in a movie theatre a crime. A first offense would be punishable by six months in jail and up to $1,000 fine, which is lighter than the legislation introduced in Michigan that would bring up to 5 years in jail and a $250,000 fine. The most interesting quote concerns a study by AT&T Labs: 'Their conclusion: 77 percent of the films came from insider sources, either motion picture companies or theater employees taping from the projection booth.' I searched Ohio Gov. Bob Taft's press releases, but couldn't find any mention of it."
You can't seriously be suggesting that politicians avoid spending tax dollars, can you?
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Is that what it's about? I thought it was about back row theater pornography, where in many cases the people engaging in concentual sex acts are not quite of their majority. After all, this is a major problem too.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
They should force the perps to watch the whole Matrix trillogy front to back unless they promise to be good from now on.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Maybe a better question is how long until you can legally download movies. Their size is the biggest hold back but that won't last long. History has shown that people will pay for something they can get for free so long as there are benefits to it (good quality, fast download, legal, etc).
What about rebroadcasting the entire movie with cell phones? Should they be allowed to transmit the entire movie over the airwaves? I'd like to see the morons in front of me who spend the entire movie talking sent to jail.
defintitely knew it was recorded in a theater
or the days that you knew it was recorded in hong kong, when you can see the shadows of people's heads below the screen, and all of them are holding small camcorders.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Why not make all the people so obviously anxious to record things, go out and make endless endless public advice films. "Here is Bob. He thought he'd make a few bucks down at his local cinema...."
Could use it as advertising. Each one different. We're in favour of that, aren't we?
Reminds me of Seinfeld episode 137:
Jerry: What do you mean he's bootlegging the movie?
Kramer: Well, it's a perfectly legitimate business.
Jerry: It's not legitimate.
Kramer: It's a business.
Jerry: I don't care about Brody. I was up on 96th Street today, there was a kid couldn't have been more than ten years old. He was asking a street vendor if he had any other bootlegs as good as Death Blow. That's who I care about. The little kid who needs bootlegs, because his parent or guardian won't let him see the excessive violence and strong sexual content you and I take for granted.
George: I'm a bootlegger.
Anna: You're a what?
George: I'm bootleggin' a movie, baby!
Anna: Isn't that illegal?
George: I can do hard time for this one. And community service!
Frank: I'm sitting at home, reading a periodical, and this is the call I get? My son is a bootlegger? (He hits George in the head)
George: Ow! Dad...
Frank: Who put you up to this, was it her?
Elaine: All right. Wait a minute. I think you've got it backwards.
Frank: My George isn't clever enough to hatch a scheme like this.
Elaine: You got that right.
Frank: What the hell does that mean?
Elaine: It means whatever the hell you want it to mean.
Frank: You sayin' you want a piece of me?
Elaine: I could drop you like a bag of dirt.
Frank: You wanna piece of me? You got it!
This is what the infrared settings on camcorders are for. There should be special exceptions for people taping patrons vs the movie ;-)
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That ain't so bad. Make them watch Reloaded and Revolutions and deny them from the original Matrix.
Now, if only they had a monopoly on venues as well as production, we'd be in a much better situation.
I don't even know where to start with this one.
Do you work for microsoft?
~dank
Hello? Cruel and unusual?
Reclassify movie bootlegging as "economic terrorism" and you can apply a whole different set of laws and punishments. Plus if there's some particular country harboring economic terrorists this way, there's always Regime Change.
First to go should be Norway, for harboring that well-known economic and computing terrorist, Johansen.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
What do you think goes throught the mind of a projector jockey making $6-$15 an hour showing the same shitty movies over and over and over. You should watch Fight Club, as Brad Pitt pretty much explains it there.