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British Movie Theater Staff To Wear Night-Vision Goggles To Combat Movie Piracy
Ewan Palmer writes: Movie theater across the UK will be required to don military-style night vision goggles in order to help crack down on movie piracy ahead of the release of potential box office smashes such as Spectre and Hunger Games. The initiative is part new measures to combat piracy as in recent years, pirates have found new and inventive ways to illegally record movies while using a smartphone to film through a popcorn box. Kieron Sharp, director general of the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), said: "The bigger the film and the more anticipated it is, the higher-risk it is. We have staff on extra alert for that. James Bond is a big risk and we will be working with cinema operators and the distributors making sure we will keep that as tight as possible. We really don't want to see that recorded. They [cinema staff] are on alert to really drill down on who is in the auditorium and who might possibly be recording. They still do the sweeps around the auditoriums with the night vision glasses regardless of the film. But sometimes extra security is put in place for things like Bond."
I'm not so sure why they waited 70 years to turn themselves into a Government controlled society and surveillance state. They just don't seem to have enough neurons left to understand their prophet George Orwell.. or are just don't give a crap any more or maybe they really want it. (A lot of US citizens seem to also).
Their country is falling apart, with Scotland and Wales having debates about leaving the mes to create their own messes. Their multi-cultural environment isn't working. They are just not a model that anyone wants or looks up to..( but are there ANY in the world left?)
If the citizens want their government to use totalitarian measures to force them to kiss the US equivalent of the RIAA and MPAA.. so be it. I really don't care about them.. great history.. no future.. they lost me when they build the "London Eye", an true Eye sore and especially appropriate for the 21th century UK where "Eying" the citizens is priority #1.