Canadian Theatre Chain Sued for Abusive Search

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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uhh....wait....what?

[blhack]

Wasn't this search voluntary? As in: I want to go to this movie badly enough that I will subject myself to this search. They weren't threatening her with anything absurd, she could have just said no, maybe written an angry letter to the theater chain or sent them an envelope full of glitter?

Re:uhh....wait....what?

[blhack]

So why would I go to a theater and pay $10 for a ticket when I can download the movie in an evening for nothing? And probably download it even before it is out in the theater near me. exactly! I keep telling my friends, why would you go out and PAY for an ice cream cone, when you can just punch that little 3 year old in the knee and steal his? It is definitely a whole lot easier than having to work for 30 minutes to afford the 5 dollars! I mean, its not like you're actually depriving the kid of anything, he's 3 years old, he is just going to drop it on the ground anyway. If anything, you are doing him a service by preventing him from having to go through the mental anguish associated with dropping ones ice cream and crying about it.

You are a jackass, dude.

Re:Opening Weekends

[Anonymous Coward]

Here is the deal.

A) You are wrong

B) you are retarded

C) You should consider education or suicide.

You honestly believe that movies are losing TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a WEEKEND because all these people are watching shitty cams, even though horrendous retches of movies like Spiderman 3 continue to rake in record sales?! People so cheap that they are willing to subject themselves to a CAM version of a movie AREN'T GOING TO PAY ANYWAY.

seriously, if you can't get "the man" to let go of your dick, you might as well take a knife and cut it off. You won't be any worse off now than you were before, faggot. Maybe you'd be able to think for yourself though? Worth a try.

Me? I don't bother with theatres anymore, I'll just buy the DVD if I want to see it. The vermin (like you) that infest the theatres now a days bother me too much. Fuck them, fuck you. Learn to thing

Harriet Potter

[Tablizer]

They kicked me in the nuts, claiming my dick was a flex-cam. As revenge, my girlfriend is gonna dress like a guy and wear a dildo that *is* a cam in the theatre. Thank you Pee Wee Herman for the idea.

Re:Opening Weekends

[Enderandrew]

Who modded you informative for such obvious trolling? Telling someone to kill themselves over a post on the internet is just plain stupid. Enough with the hyperbole.

These are the facts. Experts were predicting a huge opening weekend for The Hulk, which is just one example because I remember the CNN piece on it. The film leaked opening weekend, and not only was that weekend much lower than expectations, but the next week the film dropped 70% all the way down to 18 million dollars. Instead of a huge profit, the movie actual netted a 5 million dollar less. They made 5 million less than what it cost to make. They weren't expecting Spiderman dollars (close to a billion per movie) but many experts were predicting 250 million easy for the movie. When it only made 132 million, that is a difference in 118 million dollars.

118 million = tens of millions.

I give you facts, you type in all caps and troll.

Re:Good Lord-Hand holding the intellectual.

[MysteriousPreacher]

"So rip the damn thing and be quiet about it.* As long as you don't distribute no one gives a damn what you do with the disc.

*sheesh* You all are like children sometimes."

That may work in some countries but there are some flaws.

1) It's illegal to do what you're suggesting in some countries, the UK for example.

2) The problem here is not so much a technical one, it's more the attitude of the DVD producer. It's like arguing, who cares about all the security cameras in the UK? We can just wear masks all the time.