How can something be a circumvention device if it was created before the thing that it circumvents? This could set a whole new legal precedent where if some company doesn't like some software package (that currently is perfectly legal), creates some protection mechanism after the fact that the previous software could circumvent, making it then illegal under the DMCA. Very troubling.
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What's really annoying, is that those numbers you quoted are THEATERS, not SCREENS.
Clones opened up playing on approximately 6,100 screens at 3,161 theaters across North America
Spider-man Swinging into 3,615 theaters ... with an estimated 7,500 prints
The math still works out that spiderman made more per screen, but of course the Thursday opening isn't taken into account.
How can something be a circumvention device if it was created before the thing that it circumvents? This could set a whole new legal precedent where if some company doesn't like some software package (that currently is perfectly legal), creates some protection mechanism after the fact that the previous software could circumvent, making it then illegal under the DMCA. Very troubling.