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Arrest Under New NY Anti-Piracy Law

Posted by Zonk on from the next-time-don't-wear-an-eyepatch-to-the-movies dept.

AxminsterLeuven writes "The BBC is carrying a story on new tightened New York anti-piracy legislation: A man has been arrested, after smuggling video recording equipment into a theater showing the new Transformers movie. 'Kalidou Diallo, 48, has been charged with unauthorized use of a video camera in a cinema. Under upgraded legislation, he could face six months in jail and fines of up to $5,000 (£2,487) if found guilty,' the BBC reports."

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  1. ahh by SolusSD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    stuff like this makes me mad-- not because it is illegal, but for the same reason it makes me mad when:
    - people run their LCD monitors at less than native resolution
    - people rip to mp3/ogg/wma only to burn it to a cd... that they'll probably end up ripping again
    - people save things as jpegs (lossy) only to open them later, make changes, and save again.. and again.. and again..
    etc....

    1. Re:ahh by gstoddart · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      people run their LCD monitors at less than native resolution

      See, my problem with LCDs and their friggin "native" resolution, is I want a display device which will run at whetever frigging resolution I need it to be running at right now.

      I may also need to adjust font sizes, and not use whatever (way too fscking small) font the guy who wrote the app figured I was allowed to use.

      That's why I still have a 19" multisync monitor hooked up to my KVM at home -- multiple machines, multiple resolutions if need be, no shitty monitor which has been engineered to do exactly one resolution well, and all others looking like crap.

      Who needs to resolution nazis telling you that you only get one resolution today? (And all others were implemented badly.) Sometimes, you need to use different resolutions for different tasks. Both my XP box and my FreeBSD box have hot keys for changing the resolution at run-time.

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  2. The fool... by brian0918 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If only he had simply committed perjury, obstruction of justice, and treason, he could've gotten off scott-free (provided he also had a group of high-society blank-check braindeads to pay any fines for him).

    1. Re:The fool... by notasheep · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Actually, he WAS convicted of the following:

      Guilty: Obstruction of justice for intentionally deceiving a grand jury investigating the exposure of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative.

      Guilty: Making a false statement for lying to FBI agents about a conversation with NBC newsman Tim Russert.

      Guilty: Perjury for lying in court about his conversation with Russert.

      Guilty: Perjury for lying in court about conversations with other reporters.

      Not guilty: Making a false statement regarding a conversation he had with former Time magazine writer Matt Cooper.

      Stop listening to Fox Not-News and Rush/O'Reilly/etc.

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  3. Re:Why? by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't relish the idea of missing out on a popular thing, missing the laugh in jokes and quotes, and generally not participating in this part of my culture. Hi there! Nice to meet you. I'm your complete opposite :-).
  4. Re:Why? by cayenne8 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "I *could* go off and watch a movie and leave the kids home with my wife... but the divorce would probably cost quite a bit more."

    You mean you don't EVER go out and do things on your own or with friends anymore??? You don't get time off away from the wife and she doesn't get time out away from you?

    Ouch...wow, if this is the way most married people live, I can now see why the divorce rate is so high. I'd go nuts if after I said "I do"...I'd never have any life ever again and have to only see and do things with one other person the rest of my life.

    I dunno. I guess it works for some people. I'm more like the friends I have that work around this sort of thing. One friend of mine in particular...he gets out EVERY Friday night to do what he wants away from the house. I often met up with him (pre-Katrina) to ride motorcycles out, goof off...etc. He made this deal when he got married...I guess you have to lay down the rules at the beginning. She is free to get out and run with the girls when she wants...although she doesn't seem to want to do that very often.

    But man, I could never see myself cooped up with one other person ALL the freaking time. I'd have kill them....

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