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

[Nicolas Sahlqvist]

Well, following the law to the letter can sometimes be as mad as not doing
it.. ;)

This will be interesting, I think EFF will be on top of this one, they will
have a field day!


- Nicolas
  PPI / PPSE


On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Marco Confalonieri <
marco.confalonieri at email.it> wrote:

>  juca at members.fsf.org ha scritto:
>
> 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
>
> I sent this email to MUVICO:
> ----------------------------------------
> 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,
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Their answer:
> ----------------------------------------
>
> 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.
>
>  ----------------------
>
> 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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