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."

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[tod_miller]

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.

Required reference: The Little Kicks - Seinfeld bootlegs a movie :-)

Okay sure if they can look out for that..

[caston]

What happens next time I bring a lady in with me and we sit up the back an eh... you know... do the things that slashdot never told you about... can this see us then?

Re:Okay sure if they can look out for that..

[cynic10508]

What happens next time I bring a lady in with me and we sit up the back an eh... you know... do the things that slashdot never told you about... can this see us then?

No... of course not... don't let us bother you.

Chief Quimby over helicopter loud-speaker: "Don't mind us. Continue swimming naked. Oh, come on, continue! Aww..."

Re:Okay sure if they can look out for that..

[Lord Kano]

What happens next time I bring a lady in with me and we sit up the back an eh... you know... do the things that slashdot never told you about... can this see us then?

One of my first jobs was at a movie theater. There were these two people that we nicknamed the "Swing Kids", every few Sundays they'd come to an afternoon movie. They'd get it on in a dark corner of the theater. As soon as the crowd died down, we'd take turns going into the theater to check on them. As long as no customers complained, we didn't really care.

It was pretty funny, the guy looked like Lurch from the Adams family. The girl was kind of cute but she had a gimpy leg and walked with a limp. (Maybe because of Lurch wearing her out)After every movie, Lurch would go and sit on the bench while little miss gimp limped her way into the ladies room, presumably to freshen up.

Your .sig... "I already have a job but I'm looking for a gf if any ladies are reading this in Perth West Australia. I am not pathetic.

You never have to worry about that scenario unfolding.

LK

At Last I Am Made Safe

[gadlaw]

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.

Re:At Last I Am Made Safe

[JosKarith]

Fuck it. I'm going to the cinema with my SO tomorrow, time to get round to buy a laser pointer.
The next minimum-wage spotty cinema attendant who tries to spy on us with night vision goggles is gonna find out what a life with smoking holes where his retinas were is like.
And yes, I know that decent night vision goggles have a signal damper system to prevent flash overload, but I'm betting that the film industry aren't gonna spring the extra that those cost...

Night Goggles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger"

[tod_miller]

By day a lowly projectionist, by night he is...

Night Goggles!

The most feared and ruthless projectionist of all time!

Extra Extra: Night Goggles foils bank robbery!

Sorry, semantical nit picking :)

Re:pathetic

[0racle]

Ya but the guy working at the movie theater can finally feel like he looked cool wearing the night vision goggles.

Re:pathetic

[DNS-and-BIND]

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.

Re:Taking a recording device into the theatre...

[khisanth]

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.

Re:Win-Win Solution

[kylemonger]

And if they're smart they slip out the fire exit with your $500 video camera.

Re:pathetic

[djtripp]

You can't help but look cool wearing nvgs. I mean how cool is the guy in Splinter Cell and the dudes in the Army commercials.

2 words for all those who still are trying to record movies in the theatre... flash bang

Re:pathetic

[Blublu]

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.

Re:pathetic

[ChuckleBug]

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?

Re:Night Goggles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegg

[howman]

Someone has to say it...

In the United States, the movies watch you!

Re:Invasion of privacy?

[nacturation]

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?

Re:This is a good move... but not for the MPAA

[east coast]

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.

Re:This is not a good argument for harsh punishmen

[Chess_the_cat]

Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Protection against the Night Goggler

[cerberusss]

When you're taping the movie and the bastard with the night goggles spots you, just point your laser pen at him. The goggles will intensify the laser beam a THOUSAND TIMES leaving nothing but stinking, smoking holes where once his eyes were located...

BUUWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Re:pathetic

[The Dobber]

That's quite the pricey movie. Kevin Costner would be proud.

Re:pathetic

[Phurd Phlegm]

And I always thought that it was the porjectionist that was supposed to bootleg movies. He's let the whole profession down... ;)

Not necessarily. He might just be reducing competition. The same principle applies in many extralegal trades--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. And that's not to mention that most projectionists are probably less than comfortable ventilating someone.

Re:pathetic

[TCaptain]

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 :)