[pp.int.general] Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy

[Marco Confalonieri]

juca at members.fsf.org ha scritto:
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>       Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony
>       Movie Piracy
>       <http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/04/1918206/Woman-Filming-Sisters-Birthday-Party-Gets-Charged-With-Felony-Movie-Piracy>
>       on Friday December 04, @04:55PM
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I sent this email to MUVICO:
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Dear staff,

It's clear from news like this:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/04/new.moon.arrest/

/"*(CNN)* -- A birthday celebration that culminated in a trip to catch
the blockbuster movie "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" could land
22-year-old Samantha Tumpach in prison for three years. /

/The Chicago, Illinois-area woman captured three minutes of the film on
her videocamera while taping part of her sister's surprise party at a
Muvico theater in Rosemont. [...]"/


that the copyright war became a crusade.
If you think that your terror campaign against videotaping can be fought
like this, go on. The only ones that will benefit from that will be us,
those who want to reform the copyright laws in a just way, with a
balance of rights between the producers and the consumers. A balance
that it's clear it's completely lost.

(And, I regret to say, also any sense of decency is lost wih it)

Regards,

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Their answer:
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MUVICO’S OFFICIAL RESPONSE TO CAMCORDING

INCIDENT AT MUVICO ROSEMONT 18

 

            The unauthorized video recording of a motion picture while
it is being exhibited in a movie theater is illegal under federal law
and under the laws of more than forty states, including the State of
Illinois.  According to a study commissioned by the Motion Picture
Association of America, illegal film piracy costs the movie industry
billions of dollars each year, and illegal camcording in movie theaters
is the source of over 90% of all illegally copied movies in their
initial release form. 

 

            In order to combat the increasing theft of copyrighted
films, the motion picture industry has encouraged theater owners to
adopt a “zero-tolerance” policy prohibiting the video or audio recording
of any portion of a movie.  Specifically, theater managers are
instructed to alert law enforcement authorities whenever they suspect
illegal activity.  Theater managers have neither the expertise nor the
authority to decide whether a crime has been committed.  Law enforcement
professionals determine what laws may have been broken and what
enforcement action should be taken.  It is then up to prosecutorial
discretion to determine the seriousness of any charges that might be
leveled.

 

            In our continuing effort to educate our guests about the
illegality of film piracy, Muvico prominently places a number of posters
and signs within its theaters alerting moviegoers of its
“zero-tolerance” policy with respect to the camcording of films in its
auditoriums.

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It is clear that they lost any common sense with decency. Then they say
that WE are the mad ones.

 



-- 
Marco Confalonieri ass.prom.soc. Partito Pirata (PP Italy)
http://www.partito-pirata.it
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