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Canadian Fined For Videoing Movie In Theatre
canadian_right writes "A Calgary man was fined $1,495 and banned from theaters for a year in the first conviction under a new Canadian law making recording a movie in a theater a crime. Until the new law took effect in 2007, prosecutors had to show evidence of distribution to get a conviction; now, recording without permission is sufficient. The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association was disappointed that jail time was not given." The man was also banned for a year from possessing any video recording equipment, even a video-capable cellphone, outside of his home.
Shouldn't you be able to record anything you see or hear with your own eyes, short of in cases of invasion of privacy?
It's just on a tape instead of synapses.
Um, you do realize that there are a few itty bitty fundamental differences between your brain and an electronic medium? Like, for example, the ability to upload the data for others to download and circumvent copyright laws, and therefore is significantly different than a brain.
Unless of course you're a cyborg from the future, in which case I for one welcome our apparently borderline retarded, shitty-analogy-making, time traveling, Cybernetic Anonymous Coward Overlords.
Fine by me, i hate cam releases!
What if I txt during the movie? At what point do the house lights go up and the police barge in?
As soon as possible, you inconsiderate clod.
The problem is that IR lamps will make everyone hot. We should pick a frequency that won't heat up the body, but will stop the recording.
A strong gamma source should do it...
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.
For everything else, there's Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Well recording a movie is one of the worst things you can do. Al Qaeda record movies all the time.