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Canadian Theatre Chain Sued for Abusive Search

Posted by kdawson on from the get-a-detector dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Canadian theater chain has been sued for an abusive search for camcording equipment. A Montreal woman is seeking $60,000 in damages for the search, which comes after the Canadian government caved to US pressure and enacted anti-camcording legislation."

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  1. Search me? by gooman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that a camcorder in your pocket or are you just happy to see the movie?

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    1. Re:Search me? by edwardpickman · · Score: 4, Funny

      The movie was "I Know Who Killed Me". It was definitely a camcorder.

    2. Re:Search me? by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny
      I generally base my moviegoing decisions on who is generating the most attention from the paparazzi on any given week. Of course, it's a huge bonus if there has been an arrest, a sex tape that "accidentally" got out, or a club fight over someone's old boyfriend. This has led me to see every movie Shannon Doherty, Paris Hilton, Tara Reid, and Lindsey Lohan have ever appeared in.

      My music tastes are similar. If you want me to buy your album, you're going to have to endanger your baby, flash your tits, or both.

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  2. Zero-sum game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It must be that there's only so much freedom to go around. Once the US has exported Freedom (TM) to all the world, there's none left domestically for the Americans to enjoy.

    Pity - I admired the notions that created all that freedom in the first place.

    (Oddly, the captcha is 'failure')

  3. Re:uhh....wait....what? by stinerman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indeed. Take it from "Adult film producer" -- there is usually a contract involved with inserting any bodily part into a woman's vagina.

  4. Use technology to not inconvenience her by Ang31us · · Score: 5, Funny
    If she's hot enough, I would use infrared camera to search her bag and see through her clothes (to make sure she's not hiding a camera, of course).

    I'm a big fan of a greyscale night-vision mode with an infrared filter on a sunny day at the beach myself.

    If she's not so hot, someone else can search her while I record the movie on my fancy camera.

  5. Re:uhh....wait....what? by davester666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Transformers $262,978,000

    Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix $207,866,865

    Ratatouille $165,519,955

    Live Free or Die Hard $116,267,860

    That amount barely covers cab fare in LA. Don't you want the artists to get paid?
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  6. But... by martin_henry · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Am I allowed to film them searching me? some people like that sort of thing....

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  7. Re:Good Lord. by RuBLed · · Score: 5, Funny

    but look on the bright side, the version of simpsons the movie you just watched contains a laugh track.

  8. Re:Good Lord. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You meant to ask if he would mind rephrasing that in American. It was already in English. Here goes, try to imagine Cletus the slack-jawed yokel from the Simpsons:

    "I ain't gettin me one of them there passus, heck thems more'n twenty dollers a month. We ain't gotten no vid-jo mobiles an' we don go on Wednesdays when we could get us a reeeduction. We is paying the full price."