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Guerrilla Drive-Ins
An anonymous reader submits "A NY Times story yesterday talked about a new fad sweeping the underground: guerrilla drive-ins. Essentially, someone sets up a DVD player, LCD projector, and wireless transmitter next to any blank wall (preferably on someone else's property - to make it more fun), and people come to watch movies. As you would expect, the movie studios aren't too thrilled." The idea that this is a notable fad reminds of when the residents of Doonesbury's Walden jokingly informed intrepid reporter Roland Burton Hedley, Jr. ("Rollie") about imaginary trends in the college drug scene. On the other hand, anything that knocks down the price of projectors is fine with me!
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Hurmph. When I was a kid, we watched shadows on cave walls and we LIKED it.
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Che would be proud of all us guerilla drive-in commandos.
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
I heard a rumor that people who lose their licenses are still physically able to turn on and operate vehicles. If that's true, then I suppose it's possible that an LCD projector could project an image against the intentions of the studios.
how difficult it must be to be an MPAA executive?
Just imagine how difficult it must be, laying awake at night, haunted by the thought that someone, somewhere out there, might be enjoying themselves.
I'm sure when the police find a bunch of people tresspassing on someone elses property, teens drinking, people smoking pot and watching DVDs, they'll be real upset at the copyright violations.
I think the whole thrill for the participants is that most of the activity is illegal...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
what next, televisions with IR cameras and computer vision software that demand a DVD be inserted by each person in the room before playing?
You may want to patent that...shit, then at least no one else could use it
If I have a private party, set up a huge freakin' projection system, and watch the DVD with my friends in the yard, it's still legal.
DVDs are usually licenced for Home use, a private party would not count as home use (even if it takes place in your home).
I have heard of a figure of 12 to 15 people being the limit of home use, although if the DVD is being shown in a public place or for commercial gain (including extra bar sales) then this would definately not be counted as home use.
As an alternative. Would Frank get in trouble for his watching movies with his friends on his 2000" TV (IIRC approx. the size of a Drive-in movie theater screen, or so I was told by a friend), that can be seen from 7 blocks away?
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Does being illegal make it wrong?
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Check out the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In DIY page: www.thespoon.com/drivein/start-your-own.html
In the NYT photo you can see how hi-tech our arrangement is: a VCR, a DVD Player, an Amplifier, and a video switch racked in a milk crate. All of it donated or scrounged. Except for the LCD projector of course, which costs around a thousand bucks for a high luminosity. low wattage one now.
As for being hipsters and slackers the trendsetting youth of the future: don't know nutin about that. We're just poor schmucks who wanted to watch movies with our friends without spending ten bucks a pop.
Other links:
NY Times article minus ads and login: http://www.thespoon.com/drivein/press/nytimes-040
Local press: http://www.thespoon.com/drivein/press/sentinel-04
Rico Thunder
Guerilla Drive-In Collective
Santa Cruz
All fine and good, but what exactly constitutes unauthorized exhibition of a motion picture or video tape?
According to 17 USC 101 and 106:
So, yes, churches, summer camps etc. movies are illegal. When I was in high school, we showed films (16mm, multi-reel) every few weeks after school. The rental included a performance fee that legalized our doing so. Blockbuster doesn't pay that fee for you, and neither does NetFlix."Just because we can do a thing does not mean that we must do it." The technology does not imply the right.