The MPAA and the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced that over the July 4th weekend, five would-be cammers were arrested after they tried to illegally record the blockbuster hit Transformers.
?These arrests serve as a reminder to potential movie thieves that whether you use a camcorder or a cell phone, stealing movies off the silver screen is a crime and you will be ... [ read the full article ]
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All this talk of pivacy gets me really, really sick. The more pivacy laws they make, the richer these producers, actors, and directors become. I just have to laugh when I hear Mel Gibson or Steven Spielberg talk about all the money they lose from pivacy. They are both BILLIONAIRES. Not millionaires, BILLIONAIRES. Now that is just plain ridiculous and should be a crime, if anything is a crime. Then we have the blood sucking Movie theatures that charge more money for a box of 2 boxes popcorn & 2 sodas than I pay for food for the entire week. They do not allow you to bring food in and totally rip you off. Can anyone say price gouging? The bottom line with Pivacy is this. These people that download movies or get these recorded cam movies are not going to spend money anyway. Eithwer they do not have the movie or they will not spend it. All the people making the billions of dollars should just accept it already. They are getting all the money they can get already.
I read that story in my local newspaper of someone being arrested at UltraStar theatres in El Centro, California. I live about 20 miles away from UltraStar. According to the Imperial Valley Press, I understood that her Nokia phone was capable of recording the entire film. I didn't read a follow up of the incident again and the newspaper did not say if it was a male or female.
Originally posted by rwzz: All this talk of pivacy gets me really, really sick. The more pivacy laws they make, the richer these producers, actors, and directors become. I just have to laugh when I hear Mel Gibson or Steven Spielberg talk about all the money they lose from pivacy. They are both BILLIONAIRES. Not millionaires, BILLIONAIRES. Now that is just plain ridiculous and should be a crime, if anything is a crime. Then we have the blood sucking Movie theatures that charge more money for a box of 2 boxes popcorn & 2 sodas than I pay for food for the entire week. They do not allow you to bring food in and totally rip you off. Can anyone say price gouging? The bottom line with Pivacy is this. These people that download movies or get these recorded cam movies are not going to spend money anyway. Eithwer they do not have the movie or they will not spend it. All the people making the billions of dollars should just accept it already. They are getting all the money they can get already.
How much is enough? If you make $200 for two weeks delivering pizzas is it OK for some bum off the street to take five bucks out of your pocket because HE thinks you make 'enough'? Movie going is a luxury service. If you can't afford to go, don't do it. I don't.
it's a luxury to get a box of popcorn that costs about 20 cents to make? But that is not the point. My point is that Federal laws permit recording any movie. You can sell the copy, give the copy away or do anything you want with it. So you are saying that movie going is a luxury and the quality of the movie does not matter to the average person that pays $10 a ticket? They just go there to get ripped off on popcorn, soda & candy, and then they can brag that they went to the movies. It is a luxury and they want to brag that they are rich? We all know this is not the truth. The MPAA spends millions of dollars to advertise horrible movies every week. Then they want more and more laws passed so they can get away with it. And most of these laws would never get passed through Congress either, because they are unconstitutional. They are all State laws that would be thrown out in any supreme court
The theaters make very little on the film itself. They only get a percentage of ticket sales with very little coming from the first couple of weeks. They make more money the longer the film runs. They make their real money from consessions. That's why popcorn and drinks are so high. Who in their right mind would run a business and not make a profit?
