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Night Goggles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger
linuxwrangler writes "According to SFGate.com/AP, a teen has been arrested for attempting to bootleg the Spider-Man 2 movie, after a projectionist using night-vision goggles spotted him. The teen was escorted from the theater by security guards and turned over to police. This may be the first arrest stemming from the use of NV goggles that were previously mentioned on Slashdot."
The article cites night vision goggles, but you all know his spider sense was tingling :-)
:-)
I think to keep in the spirit, he should have donned a spidey outfit, and swung down from his little window to catch the guy.
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Thank you Homeland Security, thank you FBI, thank you ATF. Thank god that the terrible scourge that is badly copied movies is finally getting the priority attention it deserves. But curses Night Vision Goggles, now I can't take a woman into the movies to just make out without every night vision goggled attendant busting me. I'm conflicted here.
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I mean, you would think the still would be easy enough to detect. How the heck did they manage to smuggle a boiler into the theater in the first place?
By day a lowly projectionist, by night he is...
:)
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Sorry, semantical nit picking
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Ya but the guy working at the movie theater can finally feel like he looked cool wearing the night vision goggles.
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It's worth it, if only to keep a crappy copy of a movie out of circulation, complete with coughing, laughing, and a fratboy constantly getting into frame as he gets up to piss every 30 minutes from the beer he smuggled in to the theater.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
You guys sure are badass, at Mount Berry Square Theaters. Your assistant manager Chad Moore would approve. Rome, Georgia, suburban bedroom community, home of total badasses and regulators. I'll watch my step if I ever come there, and stay far away from the mall and Mount Berry Square Theaters, in order to avoid a certain ass-whooping at the hands of ushers with girls' names.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Stopping piracy short of denying consumers recordable devices; Mission Impossible!
They should get spidey to stop the bootleggers,
He'll be hanging from the freakin roof (with a freakin' laser) and he'll go;
"my spidey sense detects that the MPAA may be about to loose millions to the green goblin copyright violator"
And then he flips out, like a ninja, and kills everyone.
Then a bunch of pirates come in and they are like "arrrrgh we be here to protect out own and stop ye and ye crappy movies".
Then spidey will whip out a guitar and start playing it and forcing the pirates to dance and dance. But as pirates are cool and awesome at breakdancing they begin to attack him *despite* having to breakdance to do it.
So it flows into this scene with break-dancing pirates fighting for the kid with the camera vs spidey hanging off the roof with his guitar and his frickin laser.
And then a freakin LAS VEGAS MONORAIL is heading for the multiplex, and spidey is like has talking marks appear next to his head like this "O" and he says "my spidey sense detects extreme danger to the audience". But the audience has already been dancing for too long (the guitar affects them too) and have no energy to escape. The pirates go "arrrrgh haharrrr" and grab the boy and his video camera with spidey's new movie on it.
Spidey is then caught in a decision between stopping the las vegas monorail from killing the audience and saving the marvel/mpaa superhero profits by stopping a "spidey23j33t.torrent" from appearing on suprnova or the like.
And spidey is like "OMG! my pants are riding up my crutchz0r!! LOL!"
But one this the pirates forgot was, that spidey has REAL ULTIMATE POWER. So spidey uses the laser to cut the roof of the multiplex, sends out a zillion webs and catches all the audience, then he jumps out the hole in the roof with the exhausted audience trailing behind. He gets them out, just as the las vegas monorail crashes and burns in the multiplex's ass.
Spidey then lands in a tree above the pirates in the parking lot and lets the audience down slowly while still holding on to them.
The pirates are like "WTF the audience is raining out the trees"
Then spidey begins to play his guitar and uses the audience like a puppet master to attack the pirates. Spidey crushes the pirates with his dancing audience, but one gets away with the camera.
Then the pirate sees Kirsten Dunst in the nude and he's like "OMG KEKEKEKE" and he starts taping with his camera and records over the movie. And spidey's danger sense is like "It's ok now spidey you can relax". And spidey's like "ok" and people around spidey are like "WTF who are you talking to?". And spidey's like "I have REAL ULTIMATE POWER" and then he just flips out.
The end.
Best (or worst) one I saw was of Van Helsing. 1) Someones Nokia phone went off during a quiet scene in the film. 2) The perpetrators actually talked throughout the film. 3) The screen suddenly went blank and you heard a muffled "oh s**t, the b***ard is coming, cover it up!" Me and my gf were in stitches.
And if they're smart they slip out the fire exit with your $500 video camera.
2 words for all those who still are trying to record movies in the theatre... flash bang
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Between not having them jab a spike into your balls, and making the jerk who wants to do that feel like he's bad at torture, you go with making the guy feel bad.
Okay, next time I get tortured, I'll give them your name.
meh
Good gawd, this guy compares some idiot bootlegging a movie to the victims of witch trials, Galileo, civil rights activists and the American revolution -- then gets modded INSIGHTFUL?
Please, people: Don't drink and moderate. Think about it, won't you?
No it's not. First half of the movie I kept falling asleep. Second half I kept asking myself why I was watching this. Moore is a horrible film maker.
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Anyway, next time trying to capture movie in a cinema
check whether it already exists in P2P networks
bring an IR laser with you. Very effective in eliminating those night goggles.
take a smaller camcorder
run faster
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm pretty damn sure I'm not), but didn't Copernicus, not Gallileo assert the world was not flat?
Quiet man, he's on a roll.
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Someone has to say it...
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Out of curiosity..does Gigli fall under the "Art" or "Great Picture" category? *ducks*
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I upsold her from a 10x10 album to an 11x14 buy moving it in front of the 10x10. It worked, but I felt so dirty. I still have nightmares about "the vanishing."
What, did you drop the 10x10 down your pants and you got a paper cut out of it?
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I hereby put you, Mr. "xlyz", user 695304 of Slashdot of the Open Source Developers Netowrk, under citizens arrest. You could not have know such information without being a pirate yourself, so, on the authoritah of the MPAA, the DCMA, the RIAA, the MIAA, and the PIAA, I am taking you in. Please unplug your computer(s) and send them to me immediately via UPS next day. They are evidence of a crime(s) and if you fail to comply you will by snickered upon severly. If, after 10 days, you still have failed to comply with this motion, I will berate you ceaselessly and tsk-tsk you endlessly.
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During the trial, the jury will be required to pitch in $10.50 to view the evidence (or $7.50 if its a twilight trial).
I want to hear the audence heckling the screen since MST3k was cancled.
Actually MST3K wasn't cancled. They simply finally caught the guy who was taping Tom, Crow and Mike.
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most of the moovies on p2p networks comes from the dvds distributed to preview them
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It sure isn't to catch movie recording theives, though that works for tax writeoffs to purchase them:)
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That's quite the pricey movie. Kevin Costner would be proud.
No really, my chair has to have a clear view... Can you please just move over one seat?
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Spidey sense isn't radar, it detects a threat and I think we all realize that a teen in a theater with a camcorder isn't much of a threat :)
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The projectionist can usually be found splicing in frames of hard-core pornography and/or spanking it.
fink your competitor out to the cops and you're saved the trouble and expense of filling him with lead and dumping him into a sausage grinder.
:-)
That's horrible! Lead is poisonous. Think of the children's breakfast! Use non-lead bullets instead.
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