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Theaters vs. Camcorders, Round 27
ackthpt writes "CNN is reporting two people, one in Los Angeles and one in Canada, were caught recording The Day After Tomorrow in cinemas, while a third got away. No mention if night-vision goggles, as previously mentioned, were of assistance." Reader azmatsci writes "Tuesday Sony was issued a patent for technology that will attempt to block camcorder recordings in movie theaters. Funny to me because I just came up with the same idea and discovered it while doing a patent search. Only problem with the idea is it will only block camcorders that use CCD recorders, which are sensitive to IR light. Another jamming idea which probably work for all camcorders can be found here."
They should be fined just out of poor taste.
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Interesting idea - crank up those IR emitters enough, and people will get hot, and need to go buy more drinks. Maybe the big soda companies have a stake in this too?
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
suggested by Paul Reubens, formerly PeeWee Herman; Cinema in the nude.
Or the movie companies could require the theaters to do what they did in cryptonomicon: put really big magnets in the doorways, so that all of the camcorders are destroyed. They could even post a sign about it to avoid being sued.
Help! I'm being repressed!
Keep releasing bad movies no one wants to bootleg.
Instead of trying to prevent copying, cinemas should just force all viewers to strip naked before entering. As an added benefit, if the movie is boring, the audience can devise their own entertainment.
(And here's an amusing summary/parody of the thing for those who are up for a little MST3K style ribbing at it.)
Didn't you see that episode of Seinfeld where Jerry becomes a bootlegger and then George decides to try it? It's for the chicks, of course.
Here's an idea: Security metal detectors! Homeland security will happily oversee who has what when entering the theatre. This will also reduce terror.
Tickets will now read "seating at 6.45. Movie starts at 7.00. Please be here two hours prior to the show due to security measures."
And this must work, since I haven't seen people recording movies on airplanes.
When filming a movie, get a buddy to sit with you with a camcorder as well. Activate the night vision on the camcorder, and scan for the evil anti-piracy guys using night vision. When you spot one of them, and they spot you, activate your camcorder's 1000 candle spotlight and aim at guy, and run for it.
Hmmm... this sounds like a really good Splinter Cell mod. Splinter Cell: Theaters VS Camcorders.
"There is no spoon." - The Matrix
This wouldn't be such a good "view" for films such as "Star Wars". 300 naked star wars geeks, doing light-saber battles and fighting evil.. it's just too much for my eyes!
Hmmm.
Damn those Linux programmers, if we just had Windows virus/worm writers to worry about, the world would be a much safer place.
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
make me want to make a fake camcorder out of a block of wood and some paint and see if I can get arrested...
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I'll wait for the DVD and rent. They get minimum $$ out of my pocket, which is my goal. Most of the sheeple don't have the willpower to do so, sadly. Things might change if they did.
It's not that I don't have the willpower, it's just that I don't have a 100 foot screen and 30,000 watt sound system at my house (yet).
I just sumbitted a patent for this jamming device.
We'll see how it goes. In tests so far it's been 100% effective.
I hope you enjoy the gum on the floor, the stale popcorn and the sticky soda mess. Also, the asshole teenagers behind you grabassing and making noise.
Besides, the sound rig in most theaters is not that great. Getting sodomized by the movie industry is an additional negative.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
It embiggened him.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Which one of you got away? Was it extremely difficult to escape the grasp of buttery fingered, 8.25/hr ushers?
This is what I've always wondered. It's been alluded to here, but I haven't seen anyone really answer the question: Who the hell says, "Well, I'm not going to go the the theater or rent/buy a DVD because I can get a shitty copy made with a goddamned hand camera at a theater for free?" It's like deciding not to go out to eat because you can find something edible in a dumpster. How does this lose the industry money?
damn near impossible to bypass it? How about buying a camcorder from a different company?
Congratulations, you just violated the DMCA!
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
I've no really strong opinions on this at the moment, but looking at the situation from a pragmatic point of view, isn't the pirating a good thing for the studios?
By passing around these low-quality versions, the studio gets free publicity by people wanting to see the movie 'properly.'
The only time they really lose is if the movie is crap and they were just relying on the marketing hype to... oh, yes, I see why they're bothered.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
My cam has a tinfoil lens hood, it is impervious to all attakcks!
Days after the initial implementation of this procedure, movie ticket sales have fallen to nearly $0, proof that piracy is responsible for reduced MPAA profits. The MPAA is going to begin suing individuals while lobbying the government to pass more stringent laws regarding movies, because the Constitution states that the MPAA has a God-given right to eternal perpetually increasing profits, and the government has a duty to guarantee that those profits increase by a satisfactory amount each year.