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Senate Unanimously Passes Anti-Camcorder Bill

Posted by michael on from the guilty-as-charged dept.

jamonterrell writes "The US Senate just unanimously passed a bill allowing the criminal prosecution of recording movies with a camcorder in theatres. Victims of the new bill would face 3 years in prison on first offense (5 if it was done for profit), repeat offenders would get 10 years. As a side note, it will cost taxpayers an additional 5 million dollars per year through 2009 for enforcement." Several states have made recording in theaters a crime, although none of them have penalties nearly as harsh as this Senate bill.

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  1. That's interesting. by Photo_Nut · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't suppose anyone is going to come up with an argument saying that they are in the theaters with their camcorders excersizing their right to time shift... :)

  2. Thank God this passed.... by Iam18grey · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sick of shaky camcorder job movies I've been downloading on Shareaza. Hopefully this will make the movies shared on P2P networks better quality.

  3. Re:Corporate Coruption by Jarnis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Farenheit 9/11? Got any links to a .torrent of good telecine/telesync of it? :p

    (ooops)